Kurfi Umaru  Umaru Ibrahim Kurfi was in born 1952 in a local government called Kurfi. He is an APC party member and was a Senator in the National Assembly of Nigeria until May 2019. Umaru was educated in Nigeria but attended one summer session at Kansas State University in the USA. He represented Katsina Central between 2015 - 2019. He was defeated in an APC primary.