Serve a full elected term — Ambrose Alli

Total tracked

Kept

Partial / mixed

Broken

Kept

Partial / mixed

Broken

In progress

Education

Provide free education and found a state university

Kept

The promise

Free education at all levels — the UPN's first cardinal programme — including a university for Bendel State.

Assessment

Fees were abolished and enrolment expanded, and Bendel State University was established at Ekpoma in 1981. It was renamed Ambrose Alli University in his honour in 2007. The university is the most durable legacy of his 1979–1983 term.

Health

Deliver free health care and infrastructure

Partial

The promise

Free health care and improved roads and services across Bendel, the rest of the UPN programme.

Assessment

Health facilities, roads and rural services were expanded, but quantified, sourced outcomes for the term are limited in the summary record.

Governance

Serve a full elected term

Broken

The promise

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

Assessment

Alli was re-elected in 1983 and removed by the December 1983 coup. A Buhari-era military tribunal convicted him of corruption and jailed him; he was released on health grounds in 1986 and died in 1989. The conviction, handed down by a military government against an opposition governor, is widely regarded as politically driven.