3
Total tracked
0
Kept
0
Partial / mixed
3
Broken
Kept
Partial / mixed
Broken
In progress
Broken
The promise
Implicit in taking office in 1999 as the first Fourth-Republic governor of Anambra: keep the state running and pay its workers.
Assessment
By September 2002 Anambra was in acute dysfunction: teachers had been on strike for about a year and civil servants and court staff for months over unpaid salaries. Mbadinuju completed only one term; the PDP denied him the ticket for 2003.
Broken
The promise
To meet the state's payroll obligations to teachers and civil servants.
Assessment
Salaries went unpaid for extended periods; the teachers' strike alone lasted roughly a year, effectively shutting public schooling in the state. The NBA president Barnabas Igwe publicly accused state leaders of embezzling funds meant for the striking workers.