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Promised affordable, accessible healthcare through a state health insurance scheme.

The Osun Health Insurance Scheme (OHIS) expanded coverage and distributed insurance cards through the term, and was selected by USAID for a pilot integrating tuberculosis care with state social health insurance schemes.

Pledged targeted social protection for vulnerable groups as part of a broader social intervention agenda.

The flagship Osun Food Support Scheme provided monthly support to roughly 30,000 vulnerable persons across the state, linked administratively with the health insurance programme.

Promised fiscal discipline to bring down the large debt burden inherited from the Aregbesola administration.

Oyetola's administration said it repaid roughly ₦97 billion of the ₦170.6 billion debt inherited in 2018 without taking on new loans, though the state's overall debt profile remained a point of political dispute, with rival campaigns later trading conflicting figures as high as ₦407 billion during the 2022 election.

Promised to reduce dependence on federal allocations by growing Osun's internally generated revenue.

NBS-tracked IGR rose from about ₦17.7 billion in 2019 to ₦19.6 billion in 2020 and roughly ₦21.86 billion in 2021, a real if modest year-on-year improvement through the pandemic period.

Sought and defended the September 2018 governorship mandate against a PDP legal challenge.

After an Election Petition Tribunal initially nullified his win 2-1 in favour of Ademola Adeleke in March 2019, the Court of Appeal reversed that decision in May 2019 on a procedural technicality, and the Supreme Court affirmed Oyetola's election in a split 5-2 ruling, holding the original tribunal proceedings a nullity.

Promised that workers and pensioners would receive their full entitlements going forward, and committed to clearing arrears left from Aregbesola's 'modulated salary' period of reduced pay.

Full monthly salary payment, already restored just before he took office, continued through his term with the finance ministry crediting improved IGR and reduced governance costs. Workers publicly petitioned Oyetola over unresolved salary arrears from the earlier modulated-salary years, and no independently verified figures confirming full arrears clearance were identified for this entry.

Sought a second term in the July 2022 governorship election.

Oyetola lost the initial count to PDP's Ademola Adeleke by a 3.5% margin. His tribunal petition alleging BVAS overvoting initially succeeded in January 2023, with the tribunal declaring him winner, but the Court of Appeal reversed that ruling in March 2023 and affirmed Adeleke, a decision the Supreme Court later upheld.

Committed to upgrading primary healthcare infrastructure across the state's local governments.

Despite $20.5 million in revitalisation grants for the state's primary healthcare centres, an investigative report found many PHCs remained in poor, sometimes dilapidated condition, raising questions about how the grant funds were actually deployed.

Implicit obligation, as a public office holder, to fully and transparently declare personal and business assets.

The 2021 Pandora Papers leak revealed Oyetola had acquired a London mansion (32 Grove End Road) in 2013 via an offshore British Virgin Islands company from a company linked to Kola Aluko, a businessman later subject to a Nigerian federal court asset-freeze order over money laundering allegations. Oyetola said he had resigned from the offshore company upon becoming Aregbesola's Chief of Staff, but the acquisition itself was never disclosed publicly before the leak.