March 01, 2021 ATTY. Jose C. Daluz III, former Cebu City councilor who headed the 2019 campaign that wrested City Hall from Tomas Osmeña s BOPK, has resigned from the city s ruling party Partido Barug.
In a one-page, three-paragraph letter to Vice Mayor Michael Rama as Barug president dated March 1, 2021, Daluz said his resignation was most appropriate as he was resolved to pursue the political party espoused by his late mother, Partido Panaghiusa.
Copies of the letter were furnished to Mayor Edgardo Labella and members of the City Council. A councilor confirmed Monday, March 1, to Bzzzzz having received the letter but withheld further comment until the Barug member could talk with colleagues in the party. Barug controls the Sanggunian.
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CEBU EXPLAINER: Atty. Oaminal’s Kurakot Gang, Mabatid’s ‘ungo’ of City Hall: unfair, wicked charges if not true
CEBU. (Clockwise) Cebu City Councilor Prisca Nina Mabatid, Atty. Clarence Paul Oaminal, and the Cebu City Hall. (File photos/ Clarence Paul Oaminal s Facebook page)
+ February 24, 2021 FIRST, there was Cebu City Councilor Prisca Nina Mabatid who in a Facebook post of February 6 and later interviews with media accused an unelected and un-appointed person of “dictating” councilors and other officials at City Hall.
Mabatid said an “ungo” or witch was actually running affairs in the city government, deciding on purchases of anti-Covid supplies and hiring and firing of employees. The figurative use of witchery suggested the councilor’s impression that the alleged villain looks like a witch and probably exhibits as much greed on his prey.