10
Total tracked
4
Kept
5
Partial / mixed
1
Broken
Kept
Partial / mixed
Broken
In progress
Partial
The promise
Campaigned on a 'Rescue and Rebuild Zamfara' mission built around a Six Smart Agenda, becoming the first Zamfara governorship candidate to unveil a formal manifesto ahead of an election.
Assessment
The administration cites debt clearance, IGR growth, and education-debt settlement as evidence of the 'rescue' phase taking hold, but the state remains under a serious, unresolved civil-society allegation over security-vote transparency (see Governance/fraud entries), leaving the 'rebuild' phase only partially delivered.
Partial
The promise
Pledged that negotiating with bandits would 'never be part of' his security strategy, vowing that criminal groups would surrender or face the law.
Assessment
The administration inaugurated a 21-member Security Trust Fund board chaired by former Inspector-General MD Abubakar and credits improved security with attracting a $200 million lithium investment; however, banditry remains an active, unresolved threat across the state, and the governor's own public remarks about knowing bandit kingpins' locations have drawn serious, unproven allegations about security-vote handling (see fraud entries).
Kept
The promise
Promised to settle the backlog of unpaid civil-service salaries, retiree pensions, and examination-body debts left by the previous administration.
Assessment
The administration paid ₦1.4 billion owed to WAEC (2018-2022) and over ₦1.3 billion to NECO across multiple withheld years, securing the release of exam results withheld for up to five years, and settled outstanding salary, pension, and gratuity arrears — including pension debt dating back to 2011 — while ensuring prompt ongoing payment.
Kept
The promise
Promised to overhaul the state's chronically weak internal revenue collection system.
Assessment
Monthly IGR grew from roughly ₦80 million at the start of the administration to over ₦5 billion, aided by a March 2026 directive abolishing cash collection of state revenue to curb leakages.
Partial
The promise
Committed to fiscal prudence given the bankrupt state of the treasury inherited from the Matawalle administration.
Assessment
The Debt Management Office recorded Zamfara's domestic debt rising by ₦14.26 billion between June and December 2023, to ₦110.57 billion; Governor Lawal publicly denied his administration had borrowed anything since taking office on 29 May 2023, attributing the recorded loan to the outgoing Matawalle government, a claim not independently reconciled with the DMO's own reporting period.
Kept
The promise
Promised to overhaul Zamfara's education system as one of the Six Smart Agenda's priority areas.
Assessment
Beyond clearing exam-body debts, the administration signed four executive orders establishing an integrated governance framework for education financing, school protection, quality assurance, and safe-schools implementation, and distributed the national curricula to Zamfara schools.
Partial
The promise
Listed health as a priority sector under the Six Smart Agenda.
Assessment
The 2026 budget allocates ₦87 billion to health; independently verified outcome data (facility completions, staffing levels, maternal-mortality trends) was not identified for this entry.
Partial
The promise
Promised to revive agriculture as part of efforts to dismantle the 'banditry economy' that had made farming dangerous across the state.
Assessment
The 2026 budget allocates ₦86 billion to agriculture, following ₦38.1 billion in the 2024 budget; independently verified yield, farmland-recovery, or farmer-return data attributable to the programme was not identified for this entry.
Kept
The promise
Argued that security reform was a precondition for unlocking Zamfara's economic potential, including its mineral resources.
Assessment
Improved security conditions were credited with attracting a $200 million lithium mining investment to the state.