Deliver development for Kwara State — Mohammed Alabi Lawal

Total tracked

Kept

Partial / mixed

Broken

Kept

Partial / mixed

Broken

In progress

Governance

Govern Kwara State on the APP platform for a full term

Kept

The promise

Implicit in his 1999 election as the first Fourth-Republic governor of Kwara State.

Assessment

Rear Admiral (rtd) Mohammed Alabi Lawal — a former military governor of Ogun State (1987–1990) — won the 1999 election on the All Peoples Party (APP) platform with the backing of the Ilorin political leader Olusola Saraki, and governed Kwara from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2003. He completed the term but lost re-election. He died in London on 15 November 2006, aged 60.

Development

Deliver development for Kwara State

Broken

The promise

To improve roads, education and services in a North-Central state on the Yoruba–Nupe–Fulani frontier.

Assessment

No quantified development record for the 1999–2003 term survives in the public record. Lawal's alliance with the Saraki political machine collapsed, he lost the 2003 election to Bukola Saraki, and at his death in November 2006 he was under EFCC investigation for the alleged diversion of state funds.

Governance

Hold his political base for a second term

Broken

The promise

Implicit in seeking re-election in 2003 as the APP incumbent.

Assessment

Lawal fell out with his patron Olusola Saraki, who threw the Ilorin machine behind his own son, Bukola Saraki. Bukola Saraki (PDP) won the 2003 election and Lawal did not return for a second term.