3
Total tracked
1
Kept
1
Partial / mixed
1
Broken
Kept
Partial / mixed
Broken
In progress
Kept
The promise
Implicit in his 1999 election on the Alliance for Democracy platform.
Assessment
A former teacher, Adesina won the 9 January 1999 election with 67.47% of the vote (454,680 of 693,349 valid votes), succeeding Kolapo Ishola of the SDP. He governed Oyo from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2003 with Iyiola Oladokun as deputy, completing the term before losing re-election. He died on 11 November 2012.
Partial
The promise
To provide free education and improve basic services in Nigeria's most populous South-West state after Lagos.
Assessment
A career educator, Adesina pursued the AD's free-education and 'masses-oriented' social programme and left office with no corruption allegation. Specific, quantified outcomes for the 1999–2003 term are not documented in the public record, and he lost the 2003 election to Rashidi Ladoja of the PDP in the sweep that took most of the South-West from the AD.
Broken
The promise
Implicit in seeking re-election in 2003.
Assessment
Adesina lost the April 2003 election to Rashidi Ladoja of the PDP, part of the sweep that took every South-West state except Lagos from the AD, and in Oyo was closely associated with the rise of the Adedibu political machine.