YANKS OUT BM VILLEGAS AFTER ESPINO EYES KIN MARLYN
By Mortz C. Ortigoza
SAN FABIAN, Pangasinan – The outgoing mayor of this P230 Million's annual appropriation budget town said that his wife will vie for the mayorship in the May 2022 election.
Mayor Constantine ‘Danny’ Agbayani told this writer that he changed his mind after endorsing since year 2020 Board Member Liberato Villegas to be his successor after his mentor and patron former Pangasinan Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. called him up and other allied mayors of Pangasinan last January 2021 to finalize their slates for the May 2022 polls.
“Katatapos lang ng ambush ni ama. Sinabi niya sa akin Danny patakbuhin mo ang kamag-anak ko si Marlyn. E ano ang magawa ko boss ko siya at kamag-anak ni misis kaya hayon umiyak si Liby noong malaman hinde na siya,’ the Mayor said in the vernacular.
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PLAYERS. Marlyn E. Agbayani (left top photo, clockwise), Pangasinan Board Member Liberato Villegas, Northern Luzon Presidential Adviser and Cagayan Special Economic Zone (CEZA) Administrator Secretary Raul Lambino, and Pangasinan Fourth District Congressman Christopher de Venecia.
He
explained to Villegas, an outgoing Board Member of the Fourth
District of Pangasinan, that he could not decline the tall order of Espino,
a former Congressman of the Fifth District, for his wife as the
party’s mayorship bet in the next poll.
He said the former solon ordered this town’s Sagud-Bhaley Barangay Chairman Efren Fajardo, a loyalist and fellow alumni of Espino at the Philippine Military Academy to rally the 34 village chiefs here to support the bid of Marlyn.
Agbayani told this newspaper that the electoral alignment in this coastal town will be his wife running with re-elective Vice Mayor Marinor de Guzman and the full ticket for the membership of the Sangguniang Bayan (legislature) under the auspices of the PDP Party versus the ticket of Villegas and Maria Rolyn Gubatan – a surgeon and a card carrying member of the Nationalist People’s Coalition.
Gubatan, the daughter- in- law of the long reigning mayor Conrado Gubatan here lost to De Guzman, whose family is into government construction, by 3,006 votes in the 2019 election participated by 39, 544 voters.
In that polls Agbayani trounced out for the third time University of the Philippines Law alumnus and mayorship rival Mojamito Libunao, Jr. (NPC) by 20, 145 lead votes in where 39, 599 voters practiced their Rights of Suffrage.
‘The problem with them is they can hardly find a bet for the SB ticket. They have only Barangay Kapitan Navarette, a retired police colonel, as candidate for the legislature”.
He found out the political stocks of Villegas declined after he loss lately to the head of a market collection office in a poll for the chairmanship of a civic organization in this town.
“Market collector lang natalo pa siya,’ Agbayani chuckled as he narrated the incident.
“Was Villagas a miser?
The Mayor just gave this writer a smile.
The 50 years old Agbayani said that his Ninong (wedding sponsor) who became his bitter mayorship rival former nine years mayor Mojamito Libunao, Jr (NPC), a lawyer, joined his party and will be running for the membership of Sangguniang Panlalawigan (Provincial Legislature).
“Sumama na siya sa grupo”.
The party, he continued, will be supporting the electoral bid of two-term Fourth District Congressman Christopher de Venecia and the re-election of Pangasinan Governor Amado “Pogi” Espino, III.
“I’ve told the camp of (Northern Luzon Presidential Adviser and Cagayan Special Economic Zone (CEZA) Administrator) Secretary Raul Lambino not to convince me to join his congressional bid because we have already a line up”.
He eyes Lambino to support the tandem of Villegas and Gubatan.
When asked if he was not worried that the camp of the Secretary and Presidential Adviser has unlimited financial campaign chest that according to his critics at the social media he gave P25,000 and P35,000 to each of the village chiefs and each members of the SB, respectively, that visit him at his house in Mangaldan town, Agbayani said it was not true.
‘Hinde totoo iyang ganoong kalaking halaga”.
In the 2019 election the Mayor told this writer that he financially helped De Guzman to win because Gubatan could frustrate her vice mayorship bid.
Compared to the other mayors of the forty four towns and four cities’ Pangasinan, Agbayani is moneyed because his construction company has lucrative contract of works with the infrastructure projects of the provincial government and those of the eight towns and one city’s Fifth District when Espino was a Congressman.
Agbayani said that wife Marilyn is a classmate at the former Luzon Colleges (now Luzon University) in Dagupan City until they graduated in 1990 with a degree in Bachelor of Commerce
“She majored in Marketing,” he said.
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