AdvoKC, a civic-tech organisation in Nigeria, has developed the ‘Soludometer’ to monitor the delivery of the 100 most important campaign promises of the incoming governor of Anambra State, Charles Soludo.
The organisation, Development Diaries understands, will begin the monitoring of Soludo’s performance on 17 March, 2022 – his swearing-in date as governor of the southeastern state.
Soludo, who polled 112,229 votes to emerge winner of the November 2021 election, had listed job creation, improved security and economy as his top priorities in his campaign manifesto.
The cofounder of the nonprofit, Abiola Durodola, told Development Diaries that the meter would provide a basis on which Ndi Anambra can rate the administration of the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor.
Many elected officeholders, according to the nonprofit, fail to deliver on their promises and get away with it.
The organisation aims to deepen the participation of citizens in governance and public accountability through the meter.
‘Our methodology for this is quite simple – from the data gathering process to the analysis and then to the final results – so if Soludo says he is going to dualise a particular road in Anambra, our team of researchers will visit that particular place, check what is going on there and come back with a detailed report’, he said.
‘This is what will form the basis on which we will be making our judgment, we will not be making judgments based on intentions but verifiable facts.
‘We have also pored through his campaign videos, debates, manifesto, which is the “Soludo Solution”, and we have taken out the most important things Soludo has actually highlighted that he is going to do in Anambra State.
‘We will also be tracking the promises based on timelines as there are some promises he [set out] to achieve before his first 100 days in office. There are some he intends to do every year, there are some that will last as far as his administration lasts’.
Durodola also said that the organisation had begun developing meters for the elected governors of Osun and Ekiti states.
Photo source: Charles Soludo
