Chatto cited facts and bared the truth to expose the ill intent of Aumentado’s published poison letter addressed to the Boholanos.
Aumentado was deceiving in claiming that he nominated Chatto for governor under Lakas. He did not nominate Chatto until he was done in securing slots for Herrera and Abapo in NP.
Afterward, he submitted the Bohol line-up of Lakas with Chatto as governor naturally because he was already sure of Herrera and Abapo in NP. The Lakas slate he submitted did not include Rep. Cajes for vice governor as earlier agreed. This had surprised Cajes and later caused him to protest.
Recent events have proved that Abapo is the bet of Aumentado for vice governor. But before and during the filing of candidacy, Aumentado also instigated Lim (now Chatto’s vice governor) to run for vice governor as an independent candidate. He sensed that Cajes would beat Abapo.
If there is traitor then he is not Chatto but Aumentado and Herrera who both know the original grand design of fielding NP and Lakas slates in Bohol. Aumentado has been obsessed to protect his vested interests in Villar and Pres. Arroyo, Padayon Bol-anon said.
Aumentado harbors hatred over his 52-vote lose for governor in Balilihan in 2004 election. He would not appreciate the campaign of the Chattos which explains for the over 2,000 more votes he got in the same election compared to his votes there in the 2001 election.
Lakas workers in Tagbilaran City asked why Aumentado would not blame ex-Mayor Jose Torralba for his defeat in the city also in the said election. “Is he afraid that Torralba would tell him that he also funded Mayor Lim in that election?â€
The vote count in the city for governor in 2001 was totally reversed in the 2004 election against Aumentado. It was a classic case of electorate distrust in a major candidate in the history of Bohol politics.
It was attributed to later proofs that Aumentado had lied to the people in the 2001 polls just to malign and defeat Relampagos.
Padayon Bol-anon asked that if Chatto and Cajes are the traitors to Lakas, why was Aumentado’s CONA revoked and not theirs.
Last night, National Party President Francis Manglapus denied Aumentado’s poison letter claim that Lakas presidential bet Gibo Teodoro, Manglapus and Gov. Migs Dominguez, also a ranking national party official, apologized to Aumentado.
There was no cause for sorry on their part for revoking the CONA because Aumentado himself knew that he deserved it, Manglapus told Chatto last night. He said Aumentado did not ask for apology either.
Aumentado’s revocation was reconsidered strictly because certain senior party members cited the factor of relationship and not realities, according to Manglapus.
Finding himself already fallen from the grace of Lakas for his own doings, Aumentado invented the “grand alliance†with the local NP and other groups to justify his raising of the hands of the NP candidates in Lakas (Aumentado wing) proclamation rally in Talibon earlier.
This is part of his grand design of deception so that he can “legitimize†his act of distributing NP sample ballots with Villar’s name, Lakas analysts hinted.
They said Aumentado put malice to the unity mass with Chatto, Cajes and other Lakas leaders hours before his CONA was revoked. He would not admit that not one of them was already aware of an imminent CONA revocation until it was transmitted here from national Lakas in the closing minutes of the deadline of the filing of candidacy.
The tag “smiling assassin†can only best describe Aumentado himself, Padayon Bol-anon countered.
For the first time, Chatto confessed that Catigbian Mayor Roberto Salinas had long then cautioned him to “watch out Aumentado this election.†Salinas, now a conspirator with Aumentado, must have known well of the grand design of deception.
Chatto and Cajes said Aumentado could always smile when he needed the support of the three Bohol congressmen in securing development projects and their funds from Malacanang and various agencies. When implemented, the projects would appear as a solo performance of the governor, they lamented.
Aumentado would love to accuse certain projects of being substandard and blamed Chatto or anybody and not the proper agencies implementing them. As a veteran in Congress then, Aumentado should have known that congressmen would only secure or assist in getting funds and not implement the projects since they are assigned to proper agencies, Chatto said.
Aumentado did not tell the public that Chatto demanded from DPWH to order the contractor of a Panglao road project to redo a substandard portion.
If the governor is so concerned of the state of the development works in Bohol, then he should explain the anomalies-laden dams worth billions of pesos and road back jobs wasting additional taxpayers’ money in the Second District, Lakas supporters said.
Chatto said the grand design of deception has been unveiled for the people to judge, and the “good governor may be guided by whoever his god may be because it is certain that his conscience will be disturbed as time goes by.â€
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