Gamboa: I have never left or disappointed you since 2007

Bacolod City’s Lone Opposition Councilor and running for Vice Mayor Wilson Gamboa, Jr., in the rally of the Alliance of Independents last April 23, 2022, asserted that he braved the pouring rain and scorching heat and despite lagging behind surveys, in order that his platforms and programs are delivered to all the people in all walks of life.

In an intimate rally with loyal supporters at the City Hall Fountain of Justice grounds who yelled “we are not paid”, he reiterated that his candidacy and the Alliance of Independents are aimed to push for platforms and programs and not to engage in malicious and unjustified character assassinations of their political rivals.

Gamboa explained that he almost did not make it in the last 2019 election but Bacolod City voters did not allow a 15-0 win for the majority party either, a situation where the late Atty. Lyndon Cana described it as providential and a structural arrangement where the ruling party cannot arbitrarily do and abuse itself with the presence of a lone apposition.

Prompting Gamboa to recall that his opposition-fiscalizing stance is a manifestation of his independent-mindedness free from the dictates of any moneyed patron that proved extremely difficult for the past 12 years since 2007 but blissfully, he was not alone and in vernacular, he said, “Nag-unong upod sa inyo; nagsulay sa ulan, init kag naga-haklo yab-ok upod sa inyo; nag-tindog, nag-bato upod sa inyo. (All together, we braved the rain, heat, dust, stood our grounds and fought).

Labeled “Quixotic Crazy” amidst money and patronage politics as the norm, Gamboa once again implored the great and mighty voters of Bacolod City, “Updi nyo ako sa liwat sa sini nga kausa, sa sini nga away, (walk and fight with me again in this honorable cause), not losing faith in the Bacolod electorate to once again put a Gamboa and the Alliance of Independents to the august halls of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) and restore its long lost prestige and distinction as a check and balance to the corruption and abuses of the all-powerful local executive branch.

In various interviews, Gamboa had maintained that his candidacy is to paralyze and block the overly permissive and overstaying leaders that emaciated the city treasury of money intended to serve and save lives of people at the same time imploring the unsuspecting generations of today to be aware, to be socially involved, to be awakened from the slumber of indolence.

He added that the trumpet call to crusade is sounded, the people from the Barangays and Puroks must buckle up now to protect themselves from the silent but monstrous creeping scourge of immoderate greed and corruption.* (GSP)