Support youth reintegration and workplace skills — Liyel Imoke

Total tracked

Kept

Partial / mixed

Broken

Kept

Partial / mixed

Broken

In progress

Health

Provide free healthcare for pregnant women and young children

Kept

The promise

Promised free healthcare targeted at mothers and young children, citing the state's high infant mortality rate at the start of the tenure.

Assessment

Introduced free healthcare for pregnant women and children up to age five, directly addressing the high infant mortality rate inherited at the start of the administration.

Youth

Support youth reintegration and workplace skills

Kept

The promise

Promised targeted support for unemployed and unemployable youth.

Assessment

Launched the 'Hope & Comfort' programme, including a conditional-cash-transfer component to incentivise retraining for workplace skills and reintegrate unemployed youth through a monthly stipend.

Governance

Secure a legally sound electoral mandate

Kept

The promise

Implicit in contesting for office: hold a mandate that would withstand legal challenge.

Assessment

His initial April 2007 election was annulled by an Election Appeal Tribunal in July 2008, but he won the court-ordered fresh election on 23 August 2008 and was re-installed as governor five days later.

Governance

Transparent, accountable use of public and party funds

disputed

The promise

Campaigned on accountable stewardship of Cross River's public funds.

Assessment

The EFCC questioned Imoke in 2016 over his alleged role in ₦500 million of a $115 million sum former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke allegedly lodged with the Cross River PDP chairman during the 2015 election campaign; no charges were confirmed to have followed.