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Promised to tackle kidnapping, cultism, and violent crime in Anambra by establishing a dedicated state security outfit to complement the police.

The administration established the Agunechemba security outfit, credited with intelligence-led operations including killing three gunmen who attacked a government aide's convoy, but human rights group Intersociety has accused Agunechemba operatives of extorting motorists on major roads, and the government itself sacked and ordered the prosecution of eight operatives for assaulting and publicly stripping an NYSC corps member.

Promised fiscal discipline and a break from Anambra's history of deficit borrowing, given the debt burden he said he inherited.

The administration confirmed it did not borrow to finance budget deficits in either 2023 or 2024, a deliberate departure from previous administrations' reliance on loans.

Promised to modernise and digitise revenue collection to reduce leakages and cut the state's dependence on federal allocations.

The administration's e-AIRS digital revenue platform, launched in 2022, helped raise the state's average monthly IGR from about ₦2 billion in 2023 to ₦5.2 billion in 2024, part of a longer-term rise from ₦6 billion in 2008 to over ₦42 billion in annual IGR by 2024.

Promised to run one of Nigeria's most transparent and well-managed state treasuries, given the opacity he said characterised the Obiano-era finances.

Anambra emerged as Nigeria's best-performing state in fiscal management in BudgIT's 2025 ranking, climbing from second place in 2024, citing strong revenue growth and an aggressive infrastructure and development focus.

Promised that infrastructure, economic transformation, and human capital development would form the core of the administration's spending priorities.

Budget documents show infrastructure investment rising 38.9% relative to 2024 with at least 70% of the budget allocated to infrastructure and economic transformation combined, and 2024 actual capital expenditure reached ₦218.26 billion (75.32% of that year's reported actual spending); comprehensive independently verified project-completion data across the whole infrastructure programme was not identified for this entry.

Promised to streamline the state's tax and levy regime and shield petty traders and low-capital businesses from excessive, uncoordinated levy collection.

Soludo publicly warned against levy collection from petty traders with under ₦100,000 capital and introduced a bill in December 2025 aimed at ending multiple taxation in the state, but residents continued to complain about the tax regime and levies were still reported being collected from petty traders as of 2025, indicating incomplete enforcement.

Promised to end the roughly 40-year-old pattern of disputes over the creation, recognition, and administration of autonomous communities in Anambra, which had repeatedly triggered competing traditional-leadership claims.

A Supreme Court judgment delivered on 5 June 2026 settled the underlying legal disputes over autonomous community recognition, which Soludo publicly hailed as having 'buried' the issue after four decades of conflict.

Implicit obligation, in standing up a new state-backed vigilante force, to ensure it operated within the law rather than becoming a new source of abuse.

The government did sack and order prosecution of eight Agunechemba operatives over the assault and public stripping of an NYSC corps member, but human rights monitors have separately documented broader patterns of alleged extortion of motorists by the outfit and cross-border killings and abductions attributed to vigilante groups operating in the state, with a 2025 petition calling for one such group to be disbanded.

Promised to end the IPOB-linked Monday sit-at-home protests that have periodically shut down economic activity across Anambra and the wider south-east.

The administration has forcibly reopened and, at times, ordered the closure of markets (including Onitsha Main Market in January 2026 and NASPA Market in Nnewi in February 2026) in response to sit-at-home observance, citing losses of roughly ₦8 billion a week to the state economy, but these closures themselves drew condemnation from human rights organisations and protests from affected traders, indicating the underlying sit-at-home problem was managed rather than resolved.