Civic Accountability · Nigeria

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Previously in Plateau:
Term report
8
Total tracked
2
Kept
5
Partial / mixed
0
Broken
Kept
Partial / mixed
Broken
In progress
Labour
Pay salaries and pensions promptly, without sacking workers
Kept
The promise
Promised prompt, arrears-free payment of salaries, pensions and gratuities, no sacking of duly employed civil servants, and room for more youth employment instead.
Assessment
The administration cleared the inherited ₦11bn salary arrears and ₦24bn pension/gratuity backlog from the Lalong era, and approved a new ₦70,000 state minimum wage (up from ₦30,000) for civil servants, effective November 2024.
Security
Make Plateau "a land of peace, prosperity and beauty"
Partial
The promise
Promised to end the incessant communal killings and attacks on farming communities across Plateau's conflict-affected local government areas.
Assessment
The administration has repeatedly convened the State Security Council, engaged the Army's 3 Division GOC on protecting vulnerable communities, and secured federal troop deployments, but mass-casualty attacks have continued through the term, including the April 2024 Bokkos/Mangu killings and a further attack that killed 24 people in Bin Mper, Mangu, in August 2026.
Economy
Grow internally generated revenue and cut dependence on federal allocation
Kept
The promise
Promised to strengthen the state's own revenue base rather than rely on FAAC allocations to fund government.
Assessment
The Plateau State Internal Revenue Service grew IGR from ₦15.9bn in 2023 to ₦31.14bn in 2024, surpassing ₦30bn for the first time in the state's history, and set a ₦52bn target for 2025.
Health
Rebuild Plateau's collapsed primary healthcare system
Partial
The promise
Promised to revitalise the state's roughly 1,250 primary healthcare centres and eventually deliver a teaching hospital offering global-standard tertiary care.
Assessment
Enrollment in the state's Contributory Healthcare Management Agency grew from 93,605 (May 2023) to over 208,550 (March 2024), and Plateau Specialist Hospital was upgraded with a new laboratory, admin block and expanded paediatric complex, but statewide PHC revitalisation and the planned teaching-hospital upgrade remain in progress.
Education
Raise education standards and expand access to quality schooling
Partial
The promise
Promised to reposition basic education through investment in infrastructure, teaching materials, teacher development and accountability.
Assessment
The state committed to clearing outstanding 2022–2023 UBEC counterpart-funding obligations, renovated over 1,200 classrooms in three years, and projected total basic-education investment exceeding ₦10bn, but statewide learning-outcome improvements are not yet independently verified.
Economy
Diversify the economy through agriculture, livestock and mining
Partial
The promise
Promised to unlock Plateau's agricultural and mineral potential — including its natural advantage for cattle breeding — for jobs and export revenue.
Assessment
The administration broke ground on a mega livestock-processing hub, launched the Haipang Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone under the L-PRES programme, and distributed subsidised fertiliser to farmers, but large-scale investment, jobs and export outcomes are still early-stage.
Public finance
Restore fiscal discipline and resolve Plateau's inherited debt burden
Partial
The promise
Promised to fix Plateau's weak fiscal standing after inheriting a debt burden the governor put at ₦307bn from the Lalong administration.
Assessment
DMO data shows Plateau's domestic debt stock falling from ₦83.39bn (March 2025) to ₦67.50bn (December 2025), but this DMO-tracked figure covers only part of the ₦307bn total liability the governor cited, and no independent, comprehensive accounting of that full figure's resolution has been published.
Infrastructure
Complete Lalong-era abandoned legacy projects
In progress
The promise
Promised to review and complete infrastructure projects abandoned by the previous administration rather than start over.
Assessment
A civil-society coalition says roughly ₦50bn in Lalong-era "legacy projects" remain abandoned and tied up in litigation with contractors; the Mutfwang administration has not published a project-by-project completion plan or resolution timeline for this specific portfolio.