NGScorecard

Campaigned on securing Rivers State, stressing at his May 2015 inauguration that he had promised to secure the state during the campaign.

A special task force to combat kidnapping and violent crime was established, but the state saw major, sustained political and security crises in later years, including the 2024-2025 Wike-Fubara feud that led to a federal state of emergency.

Pledged a free primary healthcare programme providing free medical services to people in rural areas of the state.

The free primary healthcare programme was implemented as pledged, one of several social-welfare policies credited to the administration.

Committed to an aggressive infrastructure programme of roads, bridges, and flyovers across the state, particularly Port Harcourt and Obio/Akpor.

Over 1,000 km of new and rehabilitated roads and multiple flyovers were delivered over the two terms, earning Wike the nickname "Mr Project".

Pledged to let the judiciary and state assembly operate independently, free of executive interference.

Twenty-eight political parties in the state publicly commended Wike in November 2015 for removing the legislature from executive interference and encouraging judicial independence.

Pledged to develop tourism and recreation infrastructure in Port Harcourt.

The Port Harcourt Pleasure Park was developed with a restaurant, bar, cinema, event centre, artificial lake, fountain, and children's amusement facilities.

Committed to building a hostel facility for the Nigerian Law School to be used by law students from across the federation.

The hostel was built and delivered, cited as one of the administration's institutional-development legacies.

Pledged to clear the salary and pension arrears left unpaid by the outgoing administration.

The administration says it cleared the inherited salary, pension, and bank-loan obligations left unattended by the previous government, though the scale of what was actually inherited was itself disputed.

Pledged to expand Rivers State's non-oil, internally generated revenue base.

IGR grew from ₦82 billion in 2015 to roughly ₦195.41 billion by 2023 per National Bureau of Statistics data, more than doubling over the two terms while Rivers held the second-highest IGR nationally for most of that period.

Committed to keeping the state's finances on a sustainable footing rather than repeating the debt profile of the previous administration.

Rivers ranked first nationally on the fiscal sustainability index within Wike's first six months in office, and again in 2020 and 2021; by 2023 the state's debt-to-revenue ratio of 54.36% remained well within the 200% sustainability threshold.

The free-healthcare and hospital-infrastructure agenda implied improved public health outcomes for Rivers residents, including for children.

A 2023 scorecard assessment found child mortality in the state rose despite the healthcare investment and revenue growth, alongside the huge debt burden left at handover — a specific shortfall against the administration's broader health record.