Maintain peace amid ethno-religious tension — Jonah David Jang

Total tracked

Kept

Partial / mixed

Broken

Kept

Partial / mixed

Broken

In progress

Governance

Deliver a period of relative stability and development

Kept

The promise

Campaigned on a period of stable, development-focused governance for Plateau State.

Assessment

Retrospectives credit the administration with achievements comparable to the state's earliest civilian governments, with the state enjoying a period described as relative plenty and stability across the tenure.

Security

Maintain peace amid ethno-religious tension

Broken

The promise

Implicit in the office of governor: maintain peace between Plateau's communities.

Assessment

The state experienced recurrent ethno-religious violence throughout the tenure, particularly between indigenous Christian communities such as the Berom and Muslim Hausa-Fulani settler communities around Jos, resulting in thousands of deaths and mass displacement.

Governance

Transparent, accountable use of federal disbursement funds

disputed

The promise

Campaigned on accountable stewardship of Plateau's public funds.

Assessment

The EFCC alleged Jang embezzled ₦6.3 billion released by the Central Bank of Nigeria for disbursement to small and medium enterprises near the end of his tenure; a Plateau High Court fully acquitted him in 2022, though the EFCC moved to appeal the acquittal.