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Sought and defended the March 2023 governorship mandate against an APC legal challenge.

Fubara won with 302,614 votes over APC's Tonye Cole (95,274) and Labour Party's Beatrice Itubo (22,224). Cole's petition, alleging Fubara was unqualified to run, was dismissed by the Tribunal, the Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court, which affirmed his election.

Promised to complete and operationalise zonal hospitals across the state to expand secondary healthcare access.

Bori Zonal Hospital has been completed, Omoku and Ahoada Zonal Hospitals were expected to be commissioned by end of 2025, and the Degema Zonal Hospital was reported roughly 80% complete as of late 2025.

Implicit expectation, as Wike's chosen successor, that Fubara would govern in continued political alignment with his predecessor and the PDP structure that brought him to power.

Relations between Fubara and Wike collapsed by late 2023, splitting the Rivers State House of Assembly into rival Amaewhule (pro-Wike) and Oko-Jumbo (pro-Fubara) factions and triggering years of institutional conflict that consumed most of the administration's political bandwidth.

Constitutional obligation to present and pass annual appropriation bills before a validly constituted House of Assembly.

The 2024 and 2025 budgets were presented to and passed by a rump faction of the Assembly (as few as 3-5 of 31 members). A Federal High Court ruled this a nullity in October 2024, the Court of Appeal agreed, and the Supreme Court dismissed Fubara's appeal in February 2025, freezing federal allocations to the state pending compliance.

Constitutional obligation to conduct free, fair, and legally sound local government elections.

Fubara's administration conducted local government elections on 5 October 2024, but the Supreme Court invalidated the results in its February 2025 ruling and removed the elected chairmen, alongside recognising the rival Amaewhule-led Assembly.

Implicit obligation to maintain public order and prevent the state's political crisis from escalating into violence.

In October 2023, part of the Rivers State House of Assembly Complex was destroyed by suspected arsonists on the eve of an impeachment attempt against Fubara, and pipeline explosions later occurred amid threats of sabotage tied to the political standoff.

Fundamental expectation of any elected governor to serve a full term without interruption to democratic governance.

President Tinubu declared a state of emergency on 18 March 2025, suspending Fubara, Deputy Governor Ngozi Odu, and all state lawmakers for six months, with a sole administrator installed in their place — an unprecedented federal intervention that several constitutional lawyers and seven PDP-led states argued was unconstitutional. Fubara was reinstated on 18 September 2025.

Implicit obligation, as a public office holder, to resolve outstanding questions about his prior conduct as a public official.

In May 2022, while serving as Rivers State Accountant-General, Fubara was declared wanted by the EFCC alongside dozens of others over an alleged ₦435 billion fraud, with a related ₦117 billion allegation involving conspiracy, money laundering, and abuse of office. He was not convicted, and constitutional immunity for sitting governors applied once he took office in 2023, leaving the allegations formally unresolved.

Announced a large-scale school refurbishment programme and job-creation initiative as centrepieces of the administration's 2026 agenda.

The ₦1.854 trillion 2026 budget was presented with infrastructure, education, and healthcare as stated priorities, including a targeted job-creation programme and a large-scale refurbishment of dilapidated schools; as a newly announced initiative, independently verified completion data was not yet available for this entry.