By Jennifer P. Rendon
Former Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog may have taken in stride comments against him by President Rodrigo Duterte in a recorded public address Monday evening.
But Mabilog’s wife Marivic will not be silenced.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Marivic taunted the President’s “obsession” with her husband.
She said Duterte should get a life as “You’re fast running out of one.”
Marivic did not end her tirade there, as she even put out a list of Duterte’s possible theme songs for the former mayor:
Pili kamo kon ano theme song ni Rodrigo para kay Jed. (You choose Rodrigo’s theme song for Jed.)
- Hopelessly Devoted to you.
- And I will always love you.
- It must have been love.
- When will I see you again?
She even made an update claiming that one of those who commented suggested the song
“Crazy for You”.
“Imagine yourself haunted in your dreams by Jed’s handsome boyish face then waking up with a mirror on your bedside table and looking back at your own face. You painfully got out of bed, stumbled towards the bathroom and in there is another mirror! Then you screamed, ‘Bong! Let’s have a presscon!’,” Marivic said.
“LOL. My novel is almost done… Merry Christmas, Digong. Spend the Holidays better. Hidlaw ka gid kay Jed? (Do you miss Jed?) “Move on. Better yet, get a life. You’re fast running out of one?” Marivic said.
In a televised address, Duterte said Mabilog was one of the government officials dismissed for various offenses.
“Jed Patrick Mabilog, mayor, Iloilo City, dismissed for grave misconduct, serious dishonesty and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service,” he said.
This was not the first time that Duterte ranted at Mabilog.
In September 2019, Duterte also picked on Mabilog and the Commission on Human Rights when the former mayor talked about his fight against illegal drugs.
Duterte was talking on fulfilling his promise with the 727 members of the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawà Pilipinas – Revolutionary Proletarian Army – Alex Boncayao Brigade – Tabara Paduano Group (RPM-P/RPA/ABB-TPG) when his speech shifted to illegal drugs in an event at the Philippine Army’s 3rd Infantry Division in Jamindan, Capiz.
In March 2019, Mabilog chose to remain silent amid Duterte’s renewed verbal attack.
But Duterte’s tirades weren’t enough to keep Marivic at bay.
Marivic then labeled Duterte as a “serial liar” and “scheming con-man” following the President’s inclusion of her husband again in the so-called narco-list.
In a Facebook post at 5:44 a.m. Friday (Philippine time) Marivic said, “He never gets tired of his pathetic and redundant tirades. Grow up and get off those fentanyl and meth clouds. Idiot. And the country’s biggest liar, too.”’
The former mayor was last seen publicly in Iloilo in late August 2017 before his Japan conference on disaster management that ran from Aug 31 to Sept 4.
He then went straight to Malaysia for an official trip on Sept 7-9. He then filed for a leave which was extended for another 30 days.
But before his leave of absence expired, the Ombudsman ordered his dismissal in October 2017.
Even at that time, Marivic said it would not be the last time that she would be speaking against this administration.
“Amidst Duterte’s vigorous verbal assaults on my family’s integrity, I cannot reasonably be expected to keep my silence. I cannot imitate the silence of the fence-sitters and pragmatists, I cannot and will not stand idly by at the rape of the Philippines,” she said.
