San Fabian Mayor Crows Loyalty to the Marcoses

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

SAN FABIAN, Pangasinan – The mayor here proudly declared that he is a true - blue supporter of the Marcoses because of his being a relative with them and the multi-million pesos’ project one of them intervened for this coastal town.

“Pumunta dito si (Senator) Imee Marcos sa opisina ko,” Mayor Constante “Danny” B. Agbayani said.

The infrastructure project he cited was a multi-million pesos’ concrete bridge Senator Imee Marcos interceded in the Department of Public Works & Highway that constructed it in the northern part of this town.

DYED -IN -THE-WOOL LOYALIST. San Fabian Mayor Danny Agbayani (left of photo) proudly told friends and constituents his loyalty to presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos and sibling Senator Imee Marcos (top and bottom part of photo). The tobacco growing first class town mayor said the Marcoses are his relative in Ilocos Norte Province.

“It’s a bridge that looks like a highway,” Agbayani described the project.

He said presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. has not yet visited his municipality but he organized a long caravan that snaked in the villages mostly participated by motorcycle owners here.

“Pero nag motorcade kami sobrang haba San Fabian lang iyan sa mga barangays”.

Agbayani posed to this newspaper how can his mayorship rivals former Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Regional Director Juvenal B. Azurin and Board Member Liberato Villegas beat his wife’s Marlyn in the mayorship election in May 9 this year when almost all the village chiefs of the thirty four barangays here vigorously support them.

“Imagine mo walang aalis na Kapitan kasi nasusunod ang gusto nilang project,” he said about how he pampered with millions of pesos project every year each of these barangay chairmen.

He told this newspaper earlier that almost all of the villages officials have been treated last year with foods, dole-outs, and raffle contests’ proceeds with prices ranging up to P2,000 to each of the recipients whenever he and the spouse rove to the villages here.

“Mayor Danny and Major Efren Fajardo (a village chief) were too generous they give P500 to P2,000 for each of the recipients in the raffle during the party given to the village officials,” a source cited.

The recipients of the cash dole-outs were barangay chairman, the nine members of the Barangay Council (Sangguniang Barangay), Tanod, and barangay health workers (BHW).

The Mayor and Fajardo, added by the source, spent up to P100,000 sometimes in each of some of these villages for the get together.

 Agbayan is known to have a huge campaign war chest complements of his moneyed and powerful patrons and proceeds of his burgeoning construction business of government projects in and out of this town.

“We have now 60,000 voters but only 45,000 voted last 2019 election,” he told Northern Watch Newspaper.