Secure a legally sound electoral mandate — Chief Timipre Marlin Sylva

Total tracked

Kept

Partial / mixed

Broken

Kept

Partial / mixed

Broken

In progress

Fiscal

Improve fiscal transparency and accountability

Kept

The promise

Promised transparent management of Bayelsa's oil-derivation revenue.

Assessment

Established the Bayelsa Expenditure and Income Transparency Initiative (BEITI), enacting laws to publish state revenue and expenditure data, an unusual step for a Niger Delta oil-producing state at the time.

Security

Address Niger Delta militancy through dialogue and reintegration

Kept

The promise

Promised a state-level response to the Niger Delta militant crisis rather than relying solely on federal security action.

Assessment

Developed a state disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) framework for Bayelsa militants that preceded and helped inform the federal government's national Amnesty Programme, launched in 2009.

Education

Expand tertiary education access in Bayelsa

Kept

The promise

Promised to bring more tertiary institutions to Bayelsa State.

Assessment

Attracted a Nigerian Law School campus to Yenagoa, funding its construction, and secured federal establishment of Federal University Otuoke and Federal Polytechnic Ekowe during his tenure.

Governance

Secure a legally sound electoral mandate

Broken

The promise

Implicit in contesting for office: hold a mandate that would withstand legal challenge.

Assessment

His initial 2007 election was upheld by the state tribunal but nullified by the Court of Appeal in April 2008 on a technical INEC filing failure; he was returned to office after comfortably winning the resulting rerun in May 2008, before his tenure was ultimately cut short by the Supreme Court in January 2012.