LINGAYEN–“Kilala ko si Raul, Magaling yan. Dapat nag-artista yan e.”

This was the reaction of Fifth District Rep. Amado Espino Jr. to the claim of Second District Board Member Raul Sison, his former political ally, that his family is under threat.  

Espino, father of Bugallon Mayor Jumel Espino, who like Sison is running for congressman in the second district, was reacting to a post of Sison in his Facebook account alleging that he and family are receiving death threats and he (Espino) strongly felt alluded to.

Here are excerpts from Sison’s FB post: “Para sa hindi nakaka-alam ako po ay isang politican na dating alalay at utusan ng Hari ng Pangasinan at ito ang storya ko kung bakit linabanan ko siya… MARAMI PA PONG THREAT SA AMIN NA HINDI KO MASABI DITO SA SOCIAL MEDIA.”

Calling a press conference Friday morning, Espino described Sison’s Facebook post as “another drama as he is good at creating scenarios as he did many times in sessions of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan.”

“Humarap ako sa inyo dahil sinasabi na niya na nanganganib ang kanyang buhay at ang kanyang pamilya. At yan ang nakakatakot, dahil kung may masamang mangyari sa kanya at sinumang miyembro ng kanyang pamilya ay tiyak na ibibintang na sa akin,” Espino said.

He said in his many political fights, there were many accusations thrown against him “but all those who made these negative accusations at me are still alive.”

He recalled that he was blamed for an alleged attempt on the life of a newsman in Villasis but God knows he had nothing to do with it.

“Tamaan na ang kidlat kung sino ang nagsisinungaling sa aming dalawa”, Espino said of Sison as he lashed out the board member for continuously ranting against him, disrespecting his wife and the wife of his son Jumel.

Espino said Sison has been linking him and Jumel to the busted fake cigarette factory in Portic, Bugallon. “Doesn’t he know that the National Bureau of Investigation already filed a case against Panilo Calugay who is the owner of the property where the fake cigarette factory was found?”

“I don’t belong to his league. He does not belong to my league,” Espino intoned

(Leonardo Micua)   

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