10
Total tracked
3
Kept
6
Partial / mixed
1
Broken
Kept
Partial / mixed
Broken
In progress
Partial
The promise
Promised at the start of his administration to prioritise ending the decade-long Boko Haram/ISWAP insurgency and reclaiming territory lost to the group.
Assessment
Zulum has overseen major security gains, reopening highways and reclaiming numerous local government headquarters, and has personally survived four assassination attempts by insurgents while touring frontline communities. However, as of 2024 he publicly confirmed that two local government areas remained outside government control, and a November 2025 humanitarian report described a resurgence of Boko Haram/ISWAP activity complicating the state's IDP-return policy.
Partial
The promise
Promised to rebuild insurgency-damaged schools and drastically reduce Borno's massive out-of-school-children population.
Assessment
The administration constructed 104 schools, restored 2,931 classrooms, recruited over 4,000 teachers, and reduced the number of out-of-school children from more than 2.2 million to roughly 700,000-800,000 by 2024-2025 — a large reduction, though hundreds of thousands remain out of school and a public petition later called for the state to declare a specific emergency on girl-child education.
Partial
The promise
Promised to end reliance on IDP camps, which he described as havens of drug abuse and exploitation, by resettling displaced persons back to secured communities of origin.
Assessment
The administration closed numerous camps — including four in 2022 alone, returning some 11,000 households — and continued closures into 2026, including the state's largest camp at Bama. Human Rights Watch and other monitors documented that many closures proceeded with inadequate consultation and left returnees without sufficient food, water, healthcare, or schools in their home communities, and a 2025 report warned that renewed insurgent activity has put the safety of some returns in question.
Kept
The promise
Promised a large-scale rebuilding programme for roads, housing, and public infrastructure destroyed or neglected during the insurgency.
Assessment
The administration has cumulatively delivered around 1,195 development projects across its tenure, including 238 projects in the 2023-2024 year alone, Borno's second flyover and an underpass pedestrian bridge (with a third flyover under construction), 32.77km of urban and rural roads, and two housing estates comprising 500 and 72 units respectively.
Partial
The promise
Promised to stimulate the local economy and create jobs by promoting agriculture and small-scale industry, particularly for returning IDPs.
Assessment
The administration has promoted agricultural and small-scale industrial activity as part of its economic recovery push, which it credits with boosting local productivity and employment; comprehensive independently verified job-creation figures were not identified for this entry.
Kept
The promise
Promised to invest in vocational and skills training to give young people, including former IDPs, an alternative to insurgency and unemployment.
Assessment
The administration established five vocational enterprise institutes and two second-chance schools for women and girls, reactivated nine existing vocational training centres to train roughly 5,000 artisans annually, and approved over ₦4 billion in local and foreign scholarships for Borno indigenes.
Kept
The promise
Promised to reduce Borno's heavy dependence on federal allocations by improving internal revenue collection.
Assessment
Borno's IGR has grown steadily since 2019, rising from about ₦6.52 billion before Zulum took office to ₦8.18 billion in his first year, and the Borno Internal Revenue Service reported collecting roughly ₦19.4 billion from MDAs and local councils in 2023, with a further ₦2.8 billion generated in just six weeks of early 2024.
Partial
The promise
Implicit obligation to hold regular, credible local government elections rather than governing through appointed caretaker committees.
Assessment
Borno held local government council elections in January 2024, which were reported as largely peaceful, but local media coverage described them as marred by voter apathy and open malpractice, raising questions about their credibility as a genuine democratic exercise.
Partial
The promise
Promised particular attention to closing gender gaps in education given the disproportionate impact of insurgency-era school closures on girls.
Assessment
The administration opened second-chance schools for women and girls and expanded scholarship funding, but a public Change.org petition later specifically urged Zulum to declare a state of emergency on girl-child education in Borno, suggesting continued unmet demand for a more forceful, dedicated policy response.