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Promised to secure Kwara's rural north (Baruten, Kaiama, Edu, Patigi, and Moro local government areas) against the armed groups devastating farming communities.

Stakeholders and traditional rulers in Kwara North say over 1,200 residents have been killed by bandits since 2023, with communities displaced, farms abandoned, and the region — once the state's food basket — devastated. A rival security network publicly alleged in 2026 that the governor obstructed their own volunteers from confronting attackers, which the government denied, insisting it does not shelter bandits.

Promised fiscal discipline and negotiated reduction of the debt inherited from previous administrations.

The governor says negotiations with the Federal Government will soon show a drastically reduced debt profile, but the Debt Management Office's own tracked domestic debt figure actually rose moderately, from ₦59.08bn (December 2024) to ₦62.56bn (September 2025), a 5.89% increase, indicating debt has not yet visibly fallen on the government's own preferred metric.

Promised to overhaul revenue collection to reduce Kwara's dependence on federal allocations.

IGR rose from ₦35.75 billion in 2022 to ₦59.64 billion in 2023 (a 66.8% jump), then grew a further 36% between 2023 and 2024, placing Kwara third nationally in BudgIT's 2025 State of States fiscal performance report; the state's revenue service reports collecting over ₦300 billion cumulatively between 2019 and the end of 2025 without introducing new taxes.

Promised a major infrastructure renewal programme as part of the campaign pledge to 'restore dignity, rebuild infrastructure, and return power and prosperity to the people.'

The administration has directed the majority of its rapidly growing budgets toward capital projects, with the 2026 budget alone earmarking 65.95% of total spending for capital expenditure; comprehensive independently verified project-by-project completion data across the full six-year infrastructure programme was not identified for this entry.

Promised broad improvements to education, healthcare, and social welfare as part of the administration's stated transformation agenda.

The government points to six years of activity across education, health, and social welfare sectors as evidence of transformation, but comprehensive independently verified outcome data (enrolment, health indicators, welfare beneficiary numbers) specific to these claims was not identified for this entry.

Promised to clear long-standing legacy debts owed to state institutions and stakeholders, including sports club obligations.

The administration announced immediate settlement of a ₦201 million sign-on fee backlog owed to Kwara United football club's coaches and players, a debt dating back roughly 16 years.

Promised to position Kwara as an attractive investment destination, particularly for export-oriented industry and trade.

Kwara State participated in the Intra-Africa Trade Fair in Cairo, Egypt, showcasing entrepreneurship and ease-of-doing-business initiatives, resulting in a Memorandum of Understanding with NEXIM Bank for export-related industrialisation investment promotion; comprehensive independently verified data on actualised investment inflows was not identified for this entry.

Implicit expectation to preserve the political coalition (including Tinubu-aligned loyalists) that helped bring the 'Otoge' ('enough is enough') movement to power against the Saraki political dynasty in 2019.

By mid-2026, Tinubu-aligned loyalists who were part of the original Otoge coalition publicly relaunched the 'Otoge Revolution' against Governor AbdulRazaq himself, signalling a fracture within the same reform movement that first elected him.

Promised to press the Federal Government for a stronger, coordinated security response to banditry in Kwara North.

The governor's engagement with President Tinubu and federal security authorities resulted in the launch of Operation Savannah Shield, a joint Army-Navy-Air Force operation covering Kwara and adjoining parts of Niger State, alongside a 'Safer Kwara' cabinet-level security committee launched in November 2025 — but Kwara North stakeholders continued reporting sustained casualties and displacement into 2026, indicating the collaboration has not yet resolved the underlying crisis.