By Jonathan A. Santes, Madel S. Namit, Mario B. Casayuran, and Charissa M. Luci The brains behind the ongoing demolition job against front-running presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is Malacañang, his camp said yesterday. “Senator Antonio Trillanes is just a pawn and President Benigno Aquino III is orchestrating a last-ditch demolition job against presidential bet Mayor Rodrigo Duterte,” Leoncio Evasco Jr., Duterte’s campaign manager, said. “All along, Malacañang is behind the sinister attacks against our candidate.” “The brains behind is Malacañang,” Evasco stressed Saturday, nine days before the elections. “The Aquino administration is bent on thwarting a victory by Duterte. It is desperately trying to save Mar Roxas’s candidacy and is poised to employ all means, including massive cheating, to maintain the status quo,” Evasco explained. “They’re making the election a very dirty political exercise. They want it confined among the elite. They cannot stomach an outsider, one [...]
