Serve a full elected term — Aper Aku

Total tracked

Kept

Partial / mixed

Broken

Kept

Partial / mixed

Broken

In progress

Agriculture

Make Benue the nation's food basket

Partial

The promise

To develop Benue State's farming potential — the 'Food Basket of the Nation' slogan associated with Aku — through inputs, roads and irrigation, on the NPN platform he won on in 1979.

Assessment

The administration promoted large-scale farming, feeder roads and produce marketing, and the 'food basket' label stuck as Benue's identity. Quantified, sourced output data for the term is limited in the summary record.

Development

Build state infrastructure and industry

Partial

The promise

Roads, water and industry for a state created only in 1976.

Assessment

Water schemes, roads and support for the Benue Cement Company at Yandev are associated with the period. The Makurdi township stadium was later named the Aper Aku Stadium in his memory. A full, sourced capital record is not available in the summary sources.

Governance

Serve a full elected term

Broken

The promise

Implicit in his 1979 election and 1983 re-election as governor of Benue State on the NPN platform.

Assessment

Aku was re-elected in 1983 and removed by the December 1983 coup. He was detained for a prolonged period by the military authorities and died in 1988, shortly after his release, in poor health.