Agbayanis lost their touch
Leonie J Galvez
21 July 2011
Re: Espino posts early lead over Agbayani
If the trend continues in the recounting of votes, Victor Agbayani will lose for the second time in a row in his bid to return to his old gubernatorial post. Clearly, the protest is aimed at demonstrating that something went wrong in the counting of votes or was cheated. Definitely, it won’t reach first base. With a majority of more than 500,000 votes garnered by the incumbent that is unprecedented in the political history of the province, his protest will be a part of history.
Contesting election results via protest is a matter of right but in the case at bar, he is out to show that “he is still alive and kicking”. He wants to alert his ‘diminishing’ supporters about his plan to come back. Again?
What he did is a distraction per se. How could he return to his old post when he can’t even win in the capital town of Lingayen that he calls home? How many times did he visit or sleep in his ancestral house in barangay Pangapisan Norte?
With Cong Leopoldo N Bataoil entrenched in the second district — a district once represented by Victor – and Gov Amado Tutaan Espino Jr. calling the shots in the province, a comeback is possibly impossible. It’s kaput for the Agbayanis.
Cong Bataoil is a true-blooded Lingayense whose dad was once a classroom teacher. He was born and reared in Barangay Libsong, a claim that no one can dispute. He is always ‘on the go’ visiting different places in his district to have a feel of their needs.
Jun, as he is fondly called in his birth town Bautista, has accomplished so much during his first term as governor even dwarfing those what the Agbayanis (father and son) brag about. On top of this, he is not an absentee- governor, a moniker that aptly described others.
The Agbayanis have lost their touch. They have to give Pangasinenses a break.
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