As reactions continue to trail the decision of Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, to probe his predecessor, Abdullahi Ganduje, a foremost pro-democracy group, the Kano Patriots, has come hard on the governor, saying he is wasting the state resources and administration’s time.

Governor Yusuf, had on Thursday, last week, inaugurated two judicial commissions of inquiry to investigate alleged corruption, misappropriation of public properties, political violence and missing persons under his predecessor, Ganduje.But the governor limited the commissions’ scope of investigation to 2015 – 2023, when Ganduje served two consecutive terms in office, raising questions as to what happened to the tenure of Mallam Rabiu Kwankwaso.

Yusuf also went further, in a statement on Sunday by his spokesperson, Sanusi Tofa, to urge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to release the result of its probe into the alleged dollar bribery video involving Ganduje.

But a press statement signed by its President, Aliyu Mohammed, on Tuesday, the Kano Patriot charged Governor Yusuf to “start counting the days, hours and minutes of the remaining months and years he has to spend in the office and how he could maximise his stay to better the lives of Kano people”.

“If it is not pure petty politics, how on earth would you describe the probe of your predecessor who is of a different political party and you refused to include the governor before him, simply because he is of the same political lineage with you?

Why can’t the probe include the tenure of Kwankwaso?“It is becoming obvious, like the APC national chairman said that Governor Yusuf is shifting public glare from the fact that there is nothing on the ground in the state to justify the sharp increase in statutory allocations to the state since the inception of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration.