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Fayemi's five-point agenda pledged social investment for Ekiti's most vulnerable, including support for indigent elderly citizens.

Announced 1 October 2011 and paying out by the 25th of that month, Ekiti's scheme gave indigent citizens aged 65+ a monthly ₦5,000 stipend across all 16 local government areas — billed at the time as the first of its kind in Nigeria and West Africa. It was signed into law on 18 March 2012 with roughly 20,000 beneficiaries. The scheme ran through the rest of Fayemi's first term but was cancelled by his successor, Ayodele Fayose, in 2014 and only revived when Fayemi returned to office in 2018.

Part of the administration's social-investment push, aimed at building a register of poor and vulnerable households and channelling support to them.

Ekiti commenced YESSO in Fayemi's first term in partnership with the World Bank, using internationally accepted poverty indices to build a single register of poor and vulnerable households across the 16 local councils. The register and partnership carried into his second term, when the first batch of about 13,813 elderly and physically-challenged beneficiaries began receiving quarterly grants — meaning the groundwork was laid in the first term but payouts at scale came later.

"Modernising agriculture" was the third plank of Fayemi's eight-point agenda, meant to draw youths back into farming on a commercial footing.

Y-CAD placed young farmers on commercial-scale agriculture, with the state government's own reporting citing beneficiaries at the Orin-Ekiti Farm Settlement building viable nursery and seedling businesses within months. It reached a cohort of participants during the term but there is no independent, resolving evidence of the programme reaching a state-wide scale before Fayemi left office in 2014.

Tourism development agenda included rehabilitating the long-neglected Ikogosi Warm Springs as a flagship resort.

Rehabilitation began in July 2011, with the state bringing in Mantis (a tourism-and-wildlife hospitality operator) to manage a three-phase redevelopment eventually meant to include a golf course, helipad and games village. Only the first phase was completed inside Fayemi's first term; the fuller vision remained unrealised when he left office in 2014.

The eight-point agenda promised a more efficient, professional and accountable civil service.

Unveiled in March 2012, the strategy set six result areas — effective governance of the service, organisational efficiency, professional conduct, an ethical work culture, competence-building and better public financial management — building on reforms dating to 1999. It restructured aspects of the workforce (including a contested disengagement of about 2,000 people the administration said had never been properly employed), but there is no independent, resolving assessment of how much of the six-point strategy was actually delivered by the end of the term.

Infrastructure renewal — roads, a new state secretariat complex and a civic centre — funded through a bond raised on the capital market.

The administration raised roughly ₦20-25bn on the capital market, most of it earmarked for roads and public buildings, including the earthwork and construction of a new governor's office (awarded at a combined ₦2.4bn) and a Civic Centre (₦2.57bn). Some of this delivered real infrastructure, but a large share of the same bond became the subject of an ICPC probe and a state judicial panel finding (see Fraud) that a chunk of it was never properly accounted for.

Reliable pipe-borne water for Ado-Ekiti and the state, after decades of unmet promises from earlier administrations.

Fayemi's government cancelled a concession deal the Oni administration had struck with private firms to produce water for the state water corporation, after that arrangement failed to deliver — reverting the corporation to producing and distributing water directly, with new funding for inputs. This addressed a specific, documented failure, but there is no resolving independent evidence of state-wide supply actually improving by the end of the term.