God Breaches Promise to Make Pacman President

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

I asked a national figure – who is a friend of boxing icon and presidential bet Manny Pacquiao – if he met and talked with the latter.

He said the last time they rubbed elbow in General Santos City was before the Senator filed his certificate of candidacy (CoC) to the Commission on Election about his intention for the No. 1 elective post of the country.

“Sinabihin ko na huwag muna siyang tumakbo dahil bata pa siya. Kahit mag vice president o mag reelect muna as Senator dahil shoo-in naman siya,” the elder pal of Pacman told me over a dinner.

The Almighty God (above in photo) who allegedly promised Senator Manny Pacquiao that comes hell or high water he will be a shoo-in winner in the May 9, 2022 presidential election in the Philippines. A pathetic country in East Asia dominated by bobotantes (stupid) voters as seen by their preferences of those Top 12 senatorial candidates provided by the pollsters.

But the octuplet boxing champ could not be dissuaded.

Damn, was this info given to me true? Hahaha!

Pacquiao – a born again Christian – told him he could not be stopped because GOD HAD ALREADY SPOKEN TO HIM that he will win – come hell or high water - the May 9, 2022 electoral derby for the presidency.

Gee whiz! Looking at the two pollsters’ Pulse Asia and Publicus Asia Inc. February 18-23, 2022 and March 9-14, 2022 surveys, respectively, Pacquiao – a product of the Department of Education's Acceleration or Accreditation and Equivalency Test  that catapulted him from grade 6 to college – showed struggling pathetically at the cellar.

He got 8% in Pulse while he was 1.85% with Publicus while rivals Bongbong Marcos and Leni Robredo compete with 55.1% and 21% (from 15% in the previous poll), respectively, in the latest poll.

With a 6.2 % lost votes from Pulse to Publicus, it seems Manny is not the Chosen One of God but his Cursed One, HesusMariaHusef hahaha!

It seems God is preoccupied with other sinful acts of man on earth – like those Despot Vladimir Putin rolling his military juggernaut on poor Ukraine - that he forgot his promise to the General Santos City’s Wonder Boy?

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Despite being front runner of the presidential race, former Senator Bongbong Marcos and older sister Senator Imee Marcos are frantic to talk and get the endorsement of the still popular cussing President Rodrigo Duterte.

“She added that they have been sending messages to President Duterte, asking for an appointment, probably hoping that a meeting would produce a clearing up of misunderstandings between the Marcos and Duterte families,” as quoted by the Manila Times on its March 13 issue.

My source told me that what got the goat of the tough talking President against Bongbong – where he again lambasted recently as weak leader and has cargo (narc dependent?) – was Imee Marcos giving the information about Duterte’s alleged scandalous corruption on the Pharmally’s brouhaha.

“Siya ang nagbigay ng information kena Senator Richard Gordon, Senate President Tito Sotto, at Senator Franklin Drilon tungkol sa lagayan doon sa Pharmally,” my source told me on conditioned of anonymity.

Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation was one of the biggest scandals that rocked the Duterte Administration last year.

Was what my source told me true against Senator Imee?

The scandal started as an inquiry into the Commission on Audit’s findings that the Department of Health (DOH) poorly spent P67 billions of pandemic funds in 2020 later turned into a full-blown twin congressional investigation into the nitty-gritty of the Duterte government’s pandemic contracts.

The Senate blue ribbon committee hearings, as Rappler.com reported, uncovered that Pharmally cornered P10 billion in pandemic deals between 2020 and 2021 despite it being a small, newly created firm that lacked the funds, track record, and credibility to handle big-ticket government procurement. 

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Some political kibitzers see that without the endorsement of the President the significant lead - although dwindling from 60% to 55% in the latest polls of Pulse to the latest survey of Publicus - of Bongbong to his rivals would be irrelevant if those mostly Duterte appointed Justices (13 out of the 15) of the Supreme Court disqualify him after the election based on the appeals of those petitioners from the five petitions like his tax conviction by the Court of Appeals on his failure to file income tax returns as filed in the Comelec earlier.

Disqualification or removal from office means mandatory succession of vice presidential front runner Sara Duterte as provided by the Constitution.

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MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA

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I am a twenty years seasoned Op-Ed Political Writer in various newspapers and Blogger exposing government corruptions, public officials's idiocy and hypocrisies, and analyzing local and international issues. I have a master’s degree in Public Administration and professional government eligibility. I taught for a decade Political Science and Economics in universities in Metro Manila and cities of Urdaneta, Pangasinan and Dagupan. Follow me on Twitter @totoMortz or email me at totomortz@yahoo.com.