CAYETANO
SEN. Alan Peter Cayetano yesterday warned the public regarding the possible airing of multi-million peso worth of negative advertisements against his partner and leading presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.
Citing an undisclosed source, Cayetano cautioned the public against anti-Duterte television advertisements on ABS-CBN today or three days before the elections.
The advertisements, he said, would try to tarnish the reputation of Duterte.
Cayetano said his source claimed that the deal was rejected by other TV networks, but ABS-CBN’s ethics committee allegedly “blindly approved” the offer.
“The mayor’s rivals are obviously afraid, and so they are resorting to these cheap stunts to try and bring his image down,” the senator said.
“They are so desperate that, aside from the full barrage of trimedia attacks against Mayor Duterte, they are now trying to push for millions in advertisements in major networks in the last few days of the campaign,” he added.
Meanwhile, Sen. Grace Poe said she was saddened that she failed to get the endorsement of the influential religious sect, Iglesia ni Cristo (INC), but said she respects its decision.
“I’d only be pretending if I say I’m not saddened by this. Of course, any support, especially from a very influential group, is very helpful,” Poe said in a press conference in Makati City yesterday.