4
Total tracked
1
Kept
1
Partial / mixed
2
Broken
Kept
Partial / mixed
Broken
In progress
Partial
The promise
Fayose's 2014 campaign, and the political language it popularised nationally, promised direct relief for the poor — empowerment for unemployed youths and widows, aid for the aged, food relief for the poorest, boreholes, and skill-acquisition and loan support for the rural poor — as a deliberate alternative to Fayemi's "material infrastructure" agenda.
Assessment
"Stomach infrastructure" became the defining, and most widely reported, description of Fayose's governing philosophy after his June 2014 election win, and the administration did run food, empowerment and micro-grant activity along these lines. But the same term in office was marked by a prolonged workers' and pensioners' salary crisis (see below), which undercuts any claim that welfare needs were being met in a sustained way.
Kept
The promise
Fayose pledged Ekiti's first flyover, a 1.2km, ₦5.7bn project linking the Fajuyi and Ojumose areas of the state capital, to ease traffic congestion.
Assessment
Construction was flagged off on 29 March 2016 with a 24-month completion target, and Ekiti's first-ever flyover bridge was commissioned on 25 May 2018 — before Fayose left office in October 2018 — by former President Goodluck Jonathan, who called it unique nationally.
Broken
The promise
Implicit in the welfare-first "stomach infrastructure" platform was that ordinary workers and pensioners would be looked after, not left unpaid.
Assessment
Ekiti received ₦9.604bn from the Federal Government's 2015 salary-bailout package specifically to help clear worker and pensioner arrears, yet by May 2016 the state's civil servants — backed by the NLC, TUC and Joint Negotiating Council — went on an indefinite strike over roughly five months of unpaid salaries, demanding a further ₦512m in December-2015 deductions be repaid; protesters at one point called for Fayose's resignation. Arrears persisted into 2017, with health workers alone owed six months' pay.