3
Total tracked
2
Kept
0
Partial / mixed
1
Broken
Kept
Partial / mixed
Broken
In progress
Kept
The promise
To match state funds with organised community contributions and use them to build roads, water schemes, hospitals and industry across Imo State.
Assessment
Mbakwe's administration is credited with an unusually intense capital programme for its resources — hotels, an airport project at Owerri (later named after him), water schemes, the Adapalm oil-palm estate and Avutu poultry among them — much of it delivered via matched community labour and money. The approach became a widely cited model of state–community co-financing.
Kept
The promise
To give Imo State its own university.
Assessment
Imo State University was founded in 1981 during his term. After the 1991 creation of Abia State it became Abia State University, Uturu, and a new Imo State University was established at Owerri in 1992.