2
Total tracked
1
Kept
1
Partial / mixed
0
Broken
Kept
Partial / mixed
Broken
In progress
Kept
The promise
Implicit in contesting in 1999 and 2003 on the PDP platform, in a state created only in 1996.
Assessment
Egwu was elected in 1999 and re-elected in 2003, serving two full terms to 29 May 2007, handing over to Martin Elechi. He later served as Minister of Education under President Yar'Adua (2008–2010) and as a Senator for Ebonyi North (2015–2023).
Partial
The promise
To stand up the administration and services of Ebonyi and to prioritise schooling.
Assessment
Egwu's government founded Ebonyi State University at Abakaliki in 1999, absorbing the medical faculty that had run since 1991 as ESUT's Faculty of Health Sciences. He is widely credited as a driver of educational expansion in the state and later held the federal education portfolio. Sourced, quantified detail on the state's broader infrastructure record over the two terms is limited.