5
Total tracked
3
Kept
1
Partial / mixed
1
Broken
Kept
Partial / mixed
Broken
In progress
Kept
The promise
Promised improved road infrastructure connecting Yola and other major towns.
Assessment
Invested roughly ₦40 billion in road construction and rehabilitation, developing township road networks in Yola and other major towns.
Kept
The promise
Promised to prioritise agriculture, drawing on his own background in large-scale farming.
Assessment
Established agricultural training centres and ran fertiliser-distribution and farmer-training programmes aimed at boosting production of rice, maize and mangoes and reducing import dependency.
Kept
The promise
Implicit in contesting for office: hold a mandate that would withstand legal challenge.
Assessment
His initial April 2007 election was annulled by the Election Petition Appeal Tribunal in February 2008 over alleged malpractice, but he won the rerun by a landslide, taking all 21 local government areas, and resumed office in April 2008.
Partial
The promise
Implicit requirement to maintain a working relationship with the Adamawa State House of Assembly.
Assessment
Relations with the Assembly swung sharply over the tenure: an early attempt to impeach him in 2008 was headed off by President Yar'Adua's personal intervention, and by March 2010 the Assembly passed a vote of confidence calling him a 'messiah' to the state — only for the same Assembly to impeach him for corruption and gross misconduct in July 2014, a removal later ruled unlawful by the courts.