Civic Accountability · Nigeria

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Previously in Lagos:
Term report
10
Total tracked
4
Kept
2
Partial / mixed
4
Broken
Kept
Partial / mixed
Broken
In progress
Economy
Employment Trust Fund for job creation
Kept
The promise
Committed to a ₦25 billion Employment Trust Fund over four years to support small and medium enterprises and create jobs.
Assessment
Governor Ambode inaugurated the Fund's board on 3 March 2016, delivering the pledge as a concrete, sourced institution rather than a purely rhetorical commitment.
Infrastructure
Two new roads per local government area every year
Kept
The promise
Pledged massive road construction across the state, with two new roads to be built in each local government area every year.
Assessment
By October 2016 the administration had flaunted 114 completed roads as a promise kept, and the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership credited the administration with roughly 423 projects executed per year from 2015.
Agriculture
Food security through improved agriculture
Partial
The promise
Pledged to ensure food security and put more food on the table of Lagos residents through improved agricultural programmes.
Assessment
No independent, state-wide verification of a completed food-security programme comparable in scale to the road or employment pledges was found.
Governance
All-inclusive government that leaves no one behind
Broken
The promise
At his May 2015 inauguration, Ambode pledged an all-inclusive government in which no segment of society, regardless of status, would be left behind.
Assessment
This pledge sits in direct tension with the administration's own record on the Otodo Gbame waterfront demolitions, where roughly 30,000 residents were displaced and a court later found the eviction unconstitutional.
Social Welfare
Support senior citizens and pensioners
Partial
The promise
Assured senior citizens and pensioners of constant support to alleviate their financial worries.
Assessment
General social-intervention programmes covering vulnerable groups were implemented, but no specific, independently verified pension-support scheme distinct from the broader welfare agenda was identified.
Fiscal
Run the state without taking on new foreign debt
Broken
The promise
Ambode said his administration never took any foreign credit facility to run state activities, framing the state's foreign debt as entirely inherited.
Assessment
Independent debt-office figures show Lagos's external debt rose by roughly $244 million and domestic debt by roughly ₦334 billion during Ambode's four-year term, indicating new borrowing occurred under his administration regardless of how the inherited baseline is characterised.
Economy
Grow Lagos's Internally Generated Revenue
Kept
The promise
Pledged to grow the state's internally generated revenue base to reduce dependence on external borrowing.
Assessment
Lagos's IGR rose from ₦399.4 billion in 2015 to ₦436.3 billion in 2016, real year-on-year growth in the administration's first full budget year.
Infrastructure
Close Lagos's infrastructure financing gap
Broken
The promise
Committed to closing Lagos's large infrastructure deficit through sustained capital investment.
Assessment
In a 2018 engagement with the private sector, Ambode himself disclosed the state would still need $50 billion over the following five years to bridge its infrastructure gap, meaning the gap remained largely unclosed by the end of his term.
Governance
Protect vulnerable residents from unlawful forced eviction
Broken
The promise
Implied by the inclusive-governance pledge that vulnerable residents, including informal waterfront settlements, would be protected from arbitrary state action.
Assessment
The Otodo Gbame waterfront community was demolished in November 2016 and again in March 2017 despite an active court process; a Lagos High Court later ruled the eviction unconstitutional and the administration was accused of ignoring the resettlement order that followed.
Governance
"Making Lagos Work for All" governance agenda
Kept
The promise
Campaigned under the L.A.G.O.S (Leadership, Accountability, Governance, Opportunity, Service) framework and the theme "Making Lagos Work for All", spanning security, economy, infrastructure, healthcare, and welfare.
Assessment
The administration was recognised with awards including the 2019 Best Performing Governor in Nigeria and the 2018 Political Brand Personality of the Year for governance performance, reflecting broad delivery against the framework even where individual pledges under it fell short.