Baste Duterte calls for BBM resignation

In a sign of a deepening rift, the youngest son of former president Rodrigo Duterte yesterday called for the resignation of President Marcos.

- DIANA LHYD SUELTO

“Mr. President, if you do not have love and aspirations for your country, resign,” Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte said in a speech at the Hakbang ug Maisug Leaders Forum in Davao City.

The mayor also accused the President of being lazy and lacking compassion.

“All of these things he is causing are oppressing the people. He is making politics his first priority instead of opening up new opportunities especially for the lower classes to improve the lives of Filipinos,” Duterte lamented.

 The mayor lambasted the President for his alleged inaction on criminality.

According to Duterte, drugs and other crimes ballooned after his father stepped down as president.

“Of course they were gone for six years. They would want to recoup their losses now,” he said.

The gains made in eradicating the New People’s Army are also being threatened, Duterte said.