5
Total tracked
4
Kept
0
Partial / mixed
1
Broken
Kept
Partial / mixed
Broken
In progress
Kept
The promise
Promised youth-focused skills-acquisition programmes.
Assessment
Youth skills acquisition initiatives were run alongside the poverty-reduction agenda through the tenure.
Kept
The promise
Promised improved tertiary-education infrastructure for the state.
Assessment
Established Sokoto State University in 2009.
Kept
The promise
Implicit in contesting for office: hold a mandate that would withstand legal challenge.
Assessment
His initial 2007 election was annulled in April 2008 over a dispute regarding his party membership at nomination, but he won the court-ordered rerun on 24 May 2008 decisively, securing a mandate that then went unchallenged for the remainder of the term.
Broken
The promise
Campaigned on accountable stewardship of Sokoto's treasury.
Assessment
Multiple petitions to the EFCC — from a Sokoto civil-society coalition in 2015 and from predecessor Attahiru Bafarawa in 2019 — alleged theft and money laundering of roughly ₦13-15 billion in state funds, with the EFCC's own 2018 fact sheet tracing at least ₦1.7 billion to Wamakko's personal account.