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Implicit in contesting on the Alliance for Democracy platform in 1999: serve out the mandate and sustain civilian rule in Lagos.

Tinubu was elected in 1999, re-elected in April 2003 — the only AD governor to survive as every other South-West state fell to the PDP — and served two full terms to 29 May 2007, when his chosen successor Babatunde Fashola was sworn in.

To build an independent revenue base for Lagos rather than depending on monthly transfers from the federation account.

The administration overhauled Lagos tax administration and pushed internally generated revenue up sharply over the term, establishing the model of a self-financing state that later administrations continued and other states sought to copy. Lagos governance won a series of external awards over 2000–2002, including a Federal Ministry of Works / UN-Habitat best-practice prize in 2002.

To tackle the chronic congestion and disorder on Lagos roads and lay the basis for mass transit.

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) was created on 15 July 2000 to enforce traffic order. The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) was established by law on 13 January 2002, with a World Bank-backed mandate to reform the transport system; it planned the Bus Rapid Transit corridor and the rail mass-transit network, though the first BRT line only opened in 2008 under the successor administration.

To bring administration closer to residents in a state whose population had far outgrown its 20 statutory local governments.

Lagos created 37 additional Local Council Development Areas in 2002. The federal government responded by withholding the state's statutory local-government allocations. The Supreme Court ruled in 2004 that the withholding was unconstitutional, but the federal government continued to withhold the funds for a period afterward, and the LCDAs were never granted full constitutional local-government status.

To resist federal encroachment on the powers and resources of an opposition-governed Lagos.

The administration won its Supreme Court challenge to the withholding of Lagos local-government funds in 2004, but the funds stayed withheld into the following years, and the term was marked by repeated Lagos–Abuja confrontations. The autonomy point held in law more than in practice while Tinubu was in office.