PRAYER VIGIL:Cebu CIty Mayor Mchael Rama shows to his supporters gathered in a prayer vigil in front of the City Hall the supposed evidences that the votes that went to his opponent, Tomas Osmeña, were allegedly meant for him. .(CDN PHOTO/FERDINAND EDRALIN)
Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama yesterday announced he has no plans to form a transition team for a smooth transfer of power to a new city administration, as he insisted that he should have won the mayoral race and not Tomas Osmeña.
“I’m not even thinking of a transition team. I’m still fighting… being a murdered. He (Osmeña) murdered the will of the people in their exercise of their right to suffrage,” claimed Rama.
Rama accused Osmeña of cheating using the vote counting machines (VCMs) but could not substantiate his claim, except to insist that Osmeña’s votes should have belonged to him.
Rama, in a press conference yesterday, kept showing an independent survey that Team Rama commissioned in April 30 which showed him supposedly enjoying an 11-12 percent winning margin against Osmeña.
Rama even handed out pieces of paper to the people inside his conference room where he was holding the press briefing, including reporters, journalism interns and some City Hall employees who are registered voters of the city and asked them to write who they voted for as mayor.
He said he will do the same in other places in the city to get the sentiments of the people.
After a prayer rally he called last Tuesday, Rama’s supporters have initiated a signature campaign to support the election protest case the mayor planned to file.