10
Total tracked
6
Kept
1
Partial / mixed
3
Broken
Kept
Partial / mixed
Broken
In progress
Kept
The promise
Promised fiscal discipline and a reduction of the heavy debt burden inherited from the El-Rufai administration, without resorting to further borrowing.
Assessment
The administration says it has paid over ₦90 billion of the inherited debt over three years while taking no new loans, and the 2026 budget explicitly introduces no new borrowing, despite the naira's depreciation having roughly tripled the real cost of servicing the dollar-denominated portion of the inherited debt.
Kept
The promise
Promised to overhaul revenue collection through tax reform, automation, and expansion of the tax net.
Assessment
IGR rose from roughly ₦5 billion a month at handover to ₦62.48 billion for the full year in 2023, ₦71 billion in 2024, and ₦86 billion in 2025, making Kaduna the leading IGR-performing state in Northern Nigeria, supported by the PAYKADUNA integrated tax administration portal.
Partial
The promise
Promised to make Kaduna a top investment destination, targeting a $3.5 billion combined investment portfolio across agriculture, manufacturing, and energy.
Assessment
The administration reports having actualised 23 investments worth over $743 million between 2023 and 2025, with a further $2.77 billion still in the pipeline rather than actualised — meaning roughly one-fifth of the total target has concretely landed so far, with the remainder still a projection.
Kept
The promise
Promised a major push to get Kaduna's large out-of-school population back into classrooms.
Assessment
The administration built 736 new classrooms, renovated over 1,200 more, recruited 10,000 teachers, and cut the number of out-of-school children from approximately 550,000 to 187,720 within two years.
Kept
The promise
Promised increased investment in agriculture, including fertiliser support and crop insurance, to boost food security amid the security crisis affecting farming communities.
Assessment
The agriculture budget rose from ₦1.48 billion in 2023 to over ₦74 billion, with more than 900 trucks of fertiliser distributed to farmers and over 100,000 smallholders enrolled in crop insurance schemes.
Kept
The promise
Promised to connect rural production centres to urban markets through a major road-building programme.
Assessment
About 150 road projects covering over 1,300 kilometres have been initiated across the state's 23 local government areas, part of a deliberate strategy to reduce travel time and support agricultural trade.
Kept
The promise
Promised cheaper, cleaner public transport options for residents.
Assessment
The state's Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) transport initiative conveyed over 1.4 million passengers within five months, saving residents more than ₦1.39 billion in transportation costs.
Broken
The promise
Implicit obligation not to weaponise state security and federal anti-corruption agencies against political opponents.
Assessment
In August 2025, a Kaduna Central senator from the opposition PDP petitioned the International Criminal Court for an arrest warrant against Governor Sani, alleging that state security agencies and EFCC operatives were deployed under his direction to intimidate and incapacitate opposition candidates ahead of a by-election, seizing over ₦26 million belonging to the PDP and arresting more than 25 senior party stakeholders.
Broken
The promise
Implicit obligation to comply with the July 2024 Supreme Court judgment requiring state governors to pay federation account allocations directly to local government councils rather than withholding or routing them through the state.
Assessment
An investigation found that Kaduna State withheld federal allocations from its 23 local government councils for several months, in what was characterised as a violation of the Supreme Court's directive on local government financial autonomy.