DAVAO CITY (PNA) – Coming to the defense of her father, presidential daughter Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, slammed Archbishop Soc Villegas for calling the Dutertes pimps of Edsa and accusing them of trying to prostitute the meaning of Edsa People Power.
“Unfortunately for you Archbishop Villegas, this is not a biased commentary on your letter to the dead because I am not a fan of President Duterte. But you are truly, madly, deeply worse than a hundred President Dutertes,” she said in her statement Friday.
Mayor Sara, who kept silent over continued attacks on President Rodrigo Duterte, said she was disturbed by the letter of Villegas to the late Cardinal Sin criticizing the Dutertes.
“Since 1986 and until seven months ago, I remember that our nation has been hounded by corruption, crime, territorial war of gangs and drug lords, extrajudicial killings, narco politics, terrorism, protracted rebellion, abuse of power in government, political bickering and the entry of foreign mafias,” she said.
It surely did not start when President Duterte took office, Sara added.
“When your friend failed as a President, I cannot remember you calling it the rape of EDSA. You just swept it under your glitzy rugs and you moved on, back to business – back to acting as if you can save us all from hell,” she stressed.
Sara reminded Villegas that President Duterte won the presidency precisely because “you ignored what was wrong with this world. All you desired was to put into power a leader who walks and talks like you – someone who is definitely not Rodrigo Duterte.”
Sara emphasized it was wrong accusing the President of defacing the memory of Edsa, recalling how her father woke her up on the night of February 25, 1986, to bring her to San Pedro Cathedral.
She said she remembered her father telling her and her brother: “Timan-i ninyo ning gabhiona ni. Ayaw ninyo kalimti (Remember this night. Never forget this).”