Polibiz
Edu, please don't...
The writings are on the wall. The message is loud and clear.
Edu, please don't rock the boat for you and your children's sake.
This is a sound advice from a former colleague in the industry who found you more effective and perfectly fit as Optical & Media Board (OMB) chairman.
You are already an icon on your own; respected in the celluloid world, what else can you ask for?
Your recent much publicized transfer of voter's registration in the town of Concepcion, Iloilo created various reactions... some made a sneer, others a mixture of ridicule and bewilderment.
By your own admission, you kept your options open whether to run for a gubernatorial post against incumbent Gov. Niel D. Tupas, Sr., or perhaps you just wanted to test the political waters in the province of Iloilo .
A television-radio talk show host was even more blunt and sarcastic during one of the show's episodes. The host said, whoever convinced Edu to run versus Governor Tupas deserves a wooden whip on its head.
Edu, in reality, has not contributed a thing or two to the province he claims his own. In contrast, Nong Niel has practically spent all the best years of his life serving the people in the province of Iloilo for more than thirty years expecting nothing in return.
Nong Niel, a veteran politician that he is, knows well how to keep his cards closed to his heart. He is very much aware of his strength and weaknesses, too. Like a pliant bamboo, he knows how to bow, when it is time for him to do so.
During the time he lost his political bid to his predecessor in 1998, Nong Niel immediately extended an olive of peace to the victors when he could have filed an electoral protest for a good reason. There was not a bit of bitterness in his heart.
His first order of the day after his failed bid was to visit his constituents in the neighboring barangays to thank them for their political support through thick and thin.
Someone up there must have loved him so much as he was given the chance to govern the province when he again ran in 2001 and having reelected in 2004. The devilish attempt of some envious people to stain the good name of the governor fall flat right on their faces.
The congressional inquiry in the guise of aid of legislation has not proven nor has achieved anything. It was absolutely a waste of time, effort and resources at the expense of Juan dela Cruz.
Further, it was also an ultimate act of hypocrisy if not outright exercise in futility.
The Edu Manzano "phenomenon" is nothing but a coated and superficial man-made event to attract the attention of the Ilonggos prior to the real thing in 2007. Who are they fooling anyway?
Edu may not be aware of this, but he is currently surrounded by pythons and crocodiles disguising themselves as his messiah. He must take extra precaution as he is being fed to the lion's den by the sycophants.
Go back to where you belong, Edu. Politics in Iloilo is really cruel, perhaps even worst compared to any other part in the country.
You don't deserve to be treated like a pawn neither like a Guinea pig and get slaughtered mercilessly by nincompoops.
Edu, please don't... The writings are on the wall. The message is loud and clear.