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AFTER causing a political tempest with his announced plan to run for Cebu City mayor, former senator John H. Osmeña, is preparing to discuss with the Liberal Party what local candidates to field in Cebu province.
He said he and other Partido Panaghiusa officials will meet with the Liberal Party after the Oct. 27 wedding of Sen. Mar Roxas and Korina Sanchez.
The 74-year-old Osmeña has come out of political retirement, since his 2007 defeat for a Senate reelection, to revive the opposition group Panaghiusa. He has encouraged Ace Durano to run for Cebu governor against Gov. Gwen Garcia although Durano has so far turned it down.
?Lack of consultation? with older political figures in Panaghiusa was a sore point for Osmeña.
He said he told the new LP Cebu party chairman Hilario Davide III, ?You (LP) cannot take us for granted. We are not puppies which you simply ask to obey. They conducted a meeting without doing any consultation.?
They met last Tuesday, he said, and Davide asked Panaghiusa leaders for their insights on the councilor's plan to run as Cebu governor on 2010.
Osmeña said the group told him their disappointment in the LP's failure to consult them on the LP's decision to identify Davide as LP's chairman in Cebu and his possible bid for the governorship.
He asked Davide to inform LP to make ?proper representations? in the localities.
Osmeña said even his cousin Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña will have a hard time asking voters in the province to vote for those whom the mayor will endorse.
Panaghiusa announced its support for the presidential bid of LP's Sen. Benigno ?Noynoy? Aquino III, and wants to discuss with LP a lineup of local candidates. Osmeña said he's bent on running for mayor of Cebu City.
?I'm not joking. I'm 125 % sure of running as Cebu City mayor. I'm going to run and I don't care who will run against me,? he told CEBU DAILY NEWS yesterday.
He said he has to work double time to make himself known to Cebu City voters.
?Dako pa kaayo ko og apason. (I have a lot of campaigning to do). Other politicians have taken advantage of the remaining time before the filing of the certificates of candidacy,? he said.
Osmeña, a resident of Toledo City, said he plans to transfer his voter's registration to barangay Camputhaw in Cebu City, where he owns another residence, before the Oct. 31 registration deadline./Reporter Ador Vincent Mayol
