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Promised to run a state with no unpaid obligations.

By the end of the tenure the administration reported no unpaid pensions, no unpaid gratuities, no salary arrears and no pending contractor bills; the Debt Management Office rated Anambra the least-indebted state in Nigeria, and the Senate rated it the most financially stable.

Promised to reform education by restoring church-run schools to their original founding agencies.

Returned schools to Voluntary Agencies (churches) on 1 January 2009; the state's results climbed from 24th out of 36 states to first place in NECO and WAEC examinations for three consecutive years, and the administration distributed over 30,000 computers to secondary schools.

Promised improved healthcare delivery for Anambra residents.

Built the Joseph Nwilo Heart Centre in Adazi-Nnukwu, where heart operations are performed, and the state won a $1 million Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation award as the best-performing state in immunisation in the South-East.

Implicit in the constitutional guarantee of a full elected term.

Survived an impeachment in November 2006 that the Court of Appeal later overturned for procedural flaws, and won a landmark Supreme Court ruling in June 2007 establishing that his four-year term ran from when he actually took office in March 2006 — extending his first term to March 2010 rather than the 2003-based calendar the state had been using, a precedent that shaped tenure disputes in several other states.