3 file CoC for city council in Cagayan De Oro

• Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=814141
• Sunday, October 11, 2015

(PNA), LAP/CD

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Oct. 12 (PNA) – Three individuals, all independent candidates, filed their certificates of candidacy (CoC) for the city council at the city’s Commissions on Elections (Comelec) office here Monday morning.

One of the candidates was former village Chief William G. Guialani of the village of Taglimao, an outskirt village in the city’s first district here.

Guialani was the first to file the CoC just as the city Comelec office opened at 8:00 a.m.

He said that he is running as an independent candidate because he does not want to be beholden to any political party except to the electorate otherwise he would not become an effective in the fight against graft and corruption.

Guialani is the only former village chief in Cagayan De Oro City who filed an anti-graft and plunder case against incumbent City Mayor Oscar Moreno. The cases are still pending with the Ombudsman, the country’s graft court.

Known as an anti-graft and corruption crusader, Guialani has filed cases of graft and corruption against the former city officials here in the past.

He said that it would be against his conscience to run under any political party, whether the administration or opposition political parties, if their leaders and standard-bearers have pending graft cases in court.

The other two individuals who filed their CoC are Rona Canoy, the daughter of former city Mayor Reuben Canoy and a certain Mike Ello, all of the three are running for independent representing the city’s first congressional district.

As of Monday afternoon, no other candidate, especially those under a national political party, has filed a CoC with the city’s Comelec office here.

In Misamis Oriental, only the Padayon Pilipino (Move Onward Filipinos), was the only Comelec-registered regional party has fielded a complete slate of candidates with the provincial Comelec office here.