Make Kebbi Nigeria's leading rice producer — Atiku Bagudu

Agriculture

Make Kebbi Nigeria's leading rice producer

Kept

The promise

Promised to build Kebbi's agriculture sector around rice production, leveraging the state's farmland along the Niger and Sokoto rivers.

Assessment

Kebbi became one of Nigeria's largest rice-producing states, with more than 70,000 farmers participating in the CBN's Anchor Borrowers rice and wheat programme; Bagudu was appointed chairman of the Presidential Task Force Committee on Rice and Wheat Production in recognition of the state's output.

Economy

Industrialise Kebbi beyond a civil-service economy

Partial

The promise

Promised to move Kebbi away from dependence on civil-service employment toward an industrial and agro-processing economy.

Assessment

The administration is credited with driving new agro-industrial investment, though the state's broader poverty and unemployment indicators remained weak through the tenure according to independent scorecards.

Education

Expand tertiary education infrastructure in Argungu

Kept

The promise

Promised improved higher-education infrastructure across the state.

Assessment

Built and furnished 500-capacity male and female hostels at the Adamu Augie College of Education (AACOE) Argungu permanent site, along with boundary fencing and gatehouse facilities.

Budget

Prioritise agriculture in state spending

Kept

The promise

Promised to make agriculture a fiscal priority given the state's farming-dependent economy.

Assessment

Allocated ₦12.8 billion to the agriculture sector in the 2016 budget alone, reflecting the priority placed on the sector.

Revenue

Grow internally generated revenue

Partial

The promise

Promised to reduce Kebbi's heavy reliance on federal allocations by growing IGR.

Assessment

IGR rose from ₦7.37 billion in 2019 to ₦13.78 billion in 2020, though it still represented only about 12% of total state revenue by 2019, with federal allocations making up the remainder.