Tomas still with Mar, considers Chiz a friend

FORMER Cebu City Rep. Tomas Osmeña is committed to supporting Liberal Party (LP) standard-bearer Mar Roxas and his running mate Camarines Sur Rep. Leni Robredo.

This despite the visit of his close friend Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero at his home yesterday noon. Osmeña confirmed the senator’s visit to reporters.

“We’re very close friends. And if Leni was not running, I’d be going 100 percent all out for Chiz, that’s why I’m torn apart,” he said.

Osmeña said Escudero went all the way to Houston when he was battling stage 4 cancer. “I would always appreciate people who go out of their way. That’s the low point of your life. That’s stage 4 cancer and he comes to visit me,” he said.

“It’s a very painful decision for me to support Leni because my heart is really with him (Chiz),” he said.

Osmeña, however, said even if he endorses any candidate, it would still be up to the Cebuano voters on who they will vote to lead the country since they make their own decisions.

Escudero told reporters that he respects Osmeña’s position, saying the former mayor also respected him regardless of his position in politics.

Sen. Grace Poe, Escudero’s running mate, was supposed to join them but she had to see a doctor for an eye check-up after her right eye had an infection and it got swollen. She thanked the Barug Alang sa Kauswagan ug Demokrasya (Bakud) Party for supporting her and Escudero.