EXTRA: Allow me focus on work — I can’t be receiving visitors everyday, Umo Eno tells politicians

Umo Eno, governor of Akwa Ibom, says his four-year tenure will not be assessed on the basis of the number of visitors he received in government house.

Eno, who promised ‘happy hour’ during the electioneering campaigns in March, asked politicians in the state to allow him focus on the work he was elected to do, instead of paying him frequent visits.

Speaking with some stakeholders, the governor said the endless visits are distracting him from treating important files and attending to other urgent matters of state.

“I like to please appeal to us the elites, since we resumed, we have tried to open our doors to receive as many people as we can and that was to show goodwill,” the governor said in a video posted on Facebook.

“As I leave here, I’m going to the office, if I get to the office now, I will only receive visitors on Thursdays and Fridays. I beg us.

“Between Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, I will not receive visitors to allow me time to do the job that you have elected me to do because no one would ask how many visitors I received at the end of four years. They will ask what we did.

“Allow us to hold the meeting we can hold, treat some files. You know we are almost treating files late and I have tried to manage it for some time, but people would get angry.

“Some people will say we just elected you, he is locking us out. That is not the issue. Let’s try and understand.”