Civic Accountability · Nigeria

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Previously in Borno:
2
Total tracked
0
Kept
0
Partial / mixed
2
Broken
Kept
Partial / mixed
Broken
In progress
Governance
Govern the old Borno State on the GNPP platform
Broken
The promise
To deliver rural development, education, water and agriculture across the old Borno State (present-day Borno and Yobe) as governor for the Great Nigeria People's Party, the party of Borno's Waziri Ibrahim.
Assessment
Goni's administration pursued schooling, water and farm-support programmes in an arid, sparsely served region. A quantified, sourced account of delivery over 1979–1983 is not available in the summary record.
Governance
Win a second term
Broken
The promise
Implicit in seeking re-election in 1983.
Assessment
After falling out with GNPP leader Waziri Ibrahim, Goni defected to the NPP and lost the 1983 Borno governorship. Whatever the result, all elected officials were removed months later by the December 1983 coup.