4
Total tracked
2
Kept
0
Partial / mixed
2
Broken
Kept
Partial / mixed
Broken
In progress
Kept
The promise
To build infrastructure and services in a state created in 1991 and still short of them.
Assessment
The administration is credited with a 250-unit housing estate, a specialist eye hospital and about 25 other health facilities, 350 borehole schemes, roughly 300 km of township roads, 100 transit buses, 40 rural electrification projects, the laying of the foundation stone of Kogi State University on 30 November 1999, and groundwork for the Obajana Cement plant with US Trade and Development Agency support. Audu was named best governor of the 1999–2003 dispensation despite being in the opposition.
Broken
The promise
Implicit in seeking re-election in 2003.
Assessment
Audu lost the 2003 Kogi governorship election to Ibrahim Idris of the PDP. An election tribunal nullified that result; in the re-run he was again defeated by Idris.
Broken
The promise
To manage state revenue and contracts for public purposes.
Assessment
On leaving office the EFCC prosecuted Audu for criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of about ₦10.97 billion of Kogi State funds, with witness testimony describing the inflation of building contracts through a company, Bulkom Nigeria Ltd, and the diversion of money from the Directorate of Rural Development. The case was unresolved when he died in 2015 while contesting the governorship again.