2
Total tracked
0
Kept
1
Partial / mixed
1
Broken
Kept
Partial / mixed
Broken
In progress
Partial
The promise
As the first governor of Osun State — created on 27 August 1991 — to establish its capital administration at Osogbo and its civil service from scratch, on the SDP platform. Adeleke was known as 'Serubawon'.
Assessment
Institution-building had barely started when the elected government was dissolved in November 1993. Adeleke, patriarch of a prominent Osun political family, later served in the Senate and died in office in 2017; his brother Ademola Adeleke became governor of Osun in 2022.
Broken
The promise
Implicit in the December 1991 election as governor of Osun State.
Assessment
Removed on 17 November 1993, when General Sani Abacha's coup dissolved every elected government in Nigeria and replaced governors with military administrators — about 22 months into a four-year term.