The Patriotic Volunteers, a pressure group of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has challenged the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) to account for the management of public resources entrusted to it in the last two years of its administration in Kano.

Besides, the group alleged gross acts of incompetence, disregard for the rule of law, and misappropriation of funds in Kano, demanding a clear explanation on the management of public resources.

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday in Kano, Patriotic Volunteers National President, Alhaji Usman Alhaji, asked Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf to make public the total revenue received from the Federation Account and Internally Generated Revenue, as well as grants since his assumption of office.

Alhaji, former Secretary to the State Government under the Ganduje-led administration, alleged the APC had noticed virtually little to show for the billions of naira accruing to the state.

The group criticised the NNPP administration over what it called the suppression of dissenting opinion, citing the banning of live political radio programmes and the alleged barring of media houses from covering government functions.

On education, the group claimed that despite declaring a state of emergency and allocating 31 per cent of the 2025 budget to the sector, schools remain overcrowded, understaffed, and ill-equipped, especially in rural areas.

Alhaji lamented that the government had refused to act on several committee reports, including those on local government drug procurement, the Sallah Day killings, the Kano megacity initiative, and the Rimin Zakara crisis.

The group raised concerns over transparency in the use of external loans and ecological funds, questioning the deployment of a $6.6 million loan secured between June and December 2023, as well as a combined N5.1 billion in ecological grants.

It also accused the government of mismanaging the water crisis, spending over N1.6 billion on fuel and utilities in three months while failing to pay water board staff a N70,000 minimum wage.

The NNPP administration was also accused of sabotaging the Independent Power Project (IPP) initiated by the Ganduje government by redirecting it to the Kwankwasiyya Housing Estate.

On local government autonomy, the group said councils remained under the unconstitutional control of the state government, citing the alleged coercion of LGAs to fund traditional institutions.

It also alleged the administration lacked legitimacy, referencing claims by unnamed National Assembly members of a political compromise that traded away the APC’s 2023 electoral victory in Kano.

Efforts to get a reaction from the Kano State Government were not successful, as the Commissioner for Information, Comrade Abdullahi Ibrahim Waiya, was not available for comment.