Mayor Leoncio Evasco of Maribojoc, Bohol released a statement during an interview with the media about the controversial statement of Mayor Duterte in one of his campaign sorties. According to Mayor Evasco, Filipinos should know better Mayor Duterte and give him a chance after a blunder in one of his speech was sensationalized by various news media company as if Mayor Duterte made a huge misake.
The mayor of Maribojoc, Bohol, one of the few local leaders in the Visayas who keeps on supporting Mayor Duterte on his campaign sorties. He was quoted as saying “Behind his strong and sometimes instransigent persona seen in public is a compassionate, since and principled man,” Mayor Evasco stated.
Mayor Evasco is one of Mayor Duterte’s chief of staff during his several terms as Davao City mayor, he was also a recipient of the conditional help by Mayor Duterte during the earthquake incident that hits Bohol although the good deeds of Mayor Duterte was not reported by the national news media.
The Mayor of Bohol also noted during an interview with Inquirer that Mayor Duterte has not taken advantage of his position as Mayor of Davao City to enrich himself or any member of his family, as a matter of proof, the world’s leading news media company, CNN even featured the humble home of Mayor Duterte in one of its news episode.
Mayor Evasco also revealed that every single centavo of the money from the people of Davao City has been well spent, every resource well allocated, distributed and use. Mayor Duterte’s sincerity as a public servant was seen in every projects of Davao City as he is considered as one of the few local candidates in the Philippines who did not put his name in any government projects instead he just used the statement that it was owned by the People of Davao City.