“Politics Is Temporary; Our Commitment To Serve The People Is Forever!”

Appearing before the City Council of Kidapawan whose members will join different sides in the coming elections, I reminded the young officials to keep their focus on the mission to serve the people.
“Politics is temporary but our commitment to serve the people is forever,” I told the City Council presided over by Vice Mayor Melvin Lamata, Jr.
During the time I served as a political leader of North Cotabato, I never considered political competitions as personal quarrel.
“Our political rivals need not be our enemies,” was the philosophy I embraced.
For failing to clobber the political rivals to the point of submission, I was called “too forgiving” which was a weakness in the dog-eats-dog world of politics.
Maybe, they were right but I have no regrets because today as a private citizen and farmer, I do not need a coterie of armed guards to protect me from “political enemies.”

#PoliticsIsTemporary!