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Campaigned on the ARISE Agenda — spanning Agricultural Revolution, Tourism, Rural Development, Infrastructure, Security, Health, Education, and Economic advancement — as his overarching governing blueprint, and pledged to be 'governor of all Akwa Ibom people' regardless of political leaning.

The Nigerian Governors' Forum named Eno 'Governor of the Year 2025' citing fiscal performance and development delivery, and a second-term 'ARISE 2.0' blueprint was unveiled in 2026; but an independent investigation the same year found the administration had simultaneously grown more fiscally secretive than its predecessor, undercutting the governance-quality half of the agenda.

Promised to reduce Akwa Ibom's reliance on federal allocations by strengthening the state's own revenue base.

IGR rose from ₦43.18 billion in 2023 to ₦75.7 billion in 2024, helped by a Treasury Single Account reform that grew monthly IGR collections from ₦7.5 billion to ₦12 billion within just three months of implementation.

Promised, in his inaugural speech, to continue and prioritise pension and gratuity payments to retired civil servants.

The administration paid ₦81.06 billion in pensions and gratuities in its first three years, surpassing the total paid during the predecessor's entire final four-year term.

Promised to leverage Akwa Ibom's comparative advantage in agriculture and revive the moribund Akwa Palm oil enterprise into a money-spinning venture.

The administration launched an Oil Palm Tree Crop Revolution, distributed seedlings and food items, and ran home-garden competitions to encourage a return to farming; independently verified evidence that Akwa Palm itself has been restored to profitability was not identified for this entry.

Promised investment in healthcare services as one of the ARISE Agenda's core pillars.

The governor declared a state of emergency on health in 2025, part-funded by an expanded ₦1.65 trillion budget, raised health-worker pay to at least 40% above the national average, and scheduled 3,300 additional health workers for the system; independently verified outcome data (e.g. maternal mortality, facility-readiness scores) was not identified for this entry.

Promised to invest in education as part of the ARISE Agenda's development pillars.

The administration reports having delivered new school infrastructure across the state as part of its anniversary scorecards; independently verified enrollment, completion-rate, or learning-outcome data was not identified for this entry.

Implicit obligation under the state's Fiscal Responsibility Law to publish budgets, procurement records, and major contract details in a timely, accessible manner.

An investigation found the 2024 budget, 2024 supplementary budget, 2025 budget, and 2025 supplementary budget were all published weeks late or not at all on the state's official budget portal, that major contract sums and timelines are rarely disclosed, and that a ₦15.47 billion Assembly complex renovation approved in 2025-2026 remains undocumented on the state's e-procurement portal seven months after work displaced legislative activities.

Pledged in his inaugural speech to govern beyond party lines and set up a bi-partisan reconciliation committee to address contending political issues.

Independently verified evidence that the promised reconciliation committee was formally constituted was not identified for this entry, and the governor's own June 2025 defection from the PDP to the APC — followed by reports he told appointees to defect or resign — sits in tension with the bi-partisan framing of his inaugural pledge.

Promised, in his inaugural speech, to usher in a new era of peace and security for the state.

The administration cited intelligence reports of criminals disguising as masquerades to justify a November-December 2025 Executive Order banning public Ekpo masquerade displays, but the order drew significant public backlash from cultural and traditional stakeholders, and independently verified state-wide crime-rate data to assess the broader security pledge was not identified for this entry.