No Mudslinging Vs. Our Rivals - Team Lomibao

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

MANGALDAN, Pangasinan – Amidst the exchanges of acerbic languages between the camps of Mangaldan Mayor Marilyn Lambino and former Mayor Bona Fe D. Parayno, mayoralty candidate Arturo Lomibao said he and his party rove the thirty villages’ town without mudslinging his two rivals.

“When I go to the barangay hindi ako naninira. Let’s avoid the politics of muckraking”, he told the Northern Watch Newspaper.

What prompted him to run for the highest elective office here because he wanted to have changes in the town.

Former Philippine National Police Director General Art Lomibao (left) and Dr. Mark Stephen Mejia. Lomibao and Mejia gun for the mayorship and vice mayorship in the May 9, 2022 election of the burgeoning town of Mangaldan, Pangasinan. 

“I tried to study the situation. Practically isa lang ang gusto nila we want change. E di siyempre I’m from the town gusto ko na rin makatulong I’m retired”.

Lomibao, a former chief of the Philippines National Police, said he and his vice mayoralty candidate Dr. Mark Stephen Mejia have asked their supporters to file their certificate of candidacy (CoC) on October 9 to November 15, 2021 because they were still ambivalent of their intention to join the electoral derby during the filing of the CoC on October 1 to 8, 2021.

“I’m trying to debate na iyang substitution. Sabi ko kay Pidong (his long-time assistant - Editor) ikaw na ang mag file I have to call my buddies (classmates at the Philippine Military Academy), I have to call my siblings in America. Sabi nila it’s up to you the decision is yours we will support you”.

Lomibao cited he, Mejia, and their eight candidates for the legislature are running under the Partido ng Repormang Pantao (PRP).

He said his vice mayoralty tandem promised the more or less sixty-five thousand voters here that in case the Team Lomibao wins in the May 9, 2022 election they will build a level-2 hospital complete with doctors and nurses.

“Ika – cluster namin iyang barangay bibigyan ng ambulances. Suweldo ko sabi niya (Mejia) ibibigay ko sa LGU,” Lomibao disclosed.

Lomibao used to be the Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief during the time of President Gloria M. Arroyo.

He has a solution on the perennial traffic congestion that besieged this town in case he wins.

“May solution na ako diyan hindi ko sasabihin galing ako ng LTO. I will discuss that when I take over”.