Lito ‘out to get even’
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“The only way I feel I can have clout is to become a candidate.
Then when I made my calculations, I hate to live in Manila but I have a very strong feeling that I might have to because I will win this one. Suko na kaayo ang mga Bisaya, biya na gyud kaayo ta (The Visayans are disappointed because we’re being left behind),” Lito said yesterday.
He is scheduled to file his COC at the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Manila office this Sunday as the lone candidate of his party, Promdi.
“And I have a story that nobody else can tell. I have succeeded in motivating a part of this republic into becoming super producers. The Republic of Cebu. That’s what I hope to become before my six years are over, the equivalent of the Republic of the Cebuano-speaking region,” he continued.
This early, however, party affiliation is beginning to be a problem for local officials whose support Lito wants to get.
Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña said Lito’s candidacy will cause him problems, since he will not be able to do for his cousin what he will do for his brother Serge.
Tomas’ Bando Osmeña Pundok Kauswagan (BOPK), which formed an alliance with the Liberal Party (LP), will junk LP bet former senator Ralph Recto to accommodate Serge.
“Now I have a problem. Number one, Serge is going to run so naturally Lito’s candidacy will affect him because few voters will vote for two Osmeñas. Second, I already committed to support LP... I can’t junk another LP candidate to accommodate Lito because I represent LP in the City,” the mayor said in a radio dyHP interview.
If he supports Lito, this means that he would have to abandon his chairmanship of LP in the city, “which I don’t like to do.”