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AFTER clinics, calamity assistance and basketball boards, the administration Bando Osmeña-Pundok Kauswagan (BO-PK) and the opposition camps are now arguing over T-shirts in the days leading up to the start of the local campaign period.
A 40-year-old barangay official named Rodrigo Caballes accused Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña's wife Margot of allegedly forcing him to wear a BO-PK T-shirt during a visit to sitio Kabukalan, barangay Guadalupe at past 8 a.m yesterday.
In a radio interview, Caballes said he was collecting payment from his aunt when Cebu City's first lady spotted him wearing an orange T-shirt bearing the image of her husband's rival in the city's south congressional district, businessman Jonathan Guardo.
?(Giingon niya) nga Dong ato nang ilisan ang imong sinina kay ipuli nato ni ang Osmeña. Ang naghatag si Margot gyud sir (She told me, 'Son, let's replace your shirt with one showing Osmeña and Margot gave me one),? Caballes said.
He said he was intimidated by the presence of Margot's bodyguard and so wore the blue shirt she gave to him.
Caballes said the blue T-shirt bore Mayor Osmeña's image on the front side and Margot's image at the back.
Caballes said he was reluctant at first but she was persistent.
?Daghan man gud sila, duna man to siya'y bodyguard, mahadlok gyud ta sir (They were many, she had bodyguards, I am afraid sir),? he said.
Caballes claimed the orange shirt was confiscated by Osmeña's followers who were with her at the time and he didn't know how or where it was disposed.
He said he felt harassed because he is a Guardo follower.
In the same radio interview, Margot denied forcing Caballes to wear the Osmeña shirt and said Caballes could give back the shirt if he wants to make an issue of the supposed incident.
While Margot deals with Guardo's followers her husband Mayor Osmeña brushed aside a reported text threat sent to him in Cebuano recently.
The threat was sent to him while he received visitors in his home in barangay Guadalupe.
?It doesn't bother me,? he told reporters. Correspondent Jhunnex Napallacan and Reporter Fe Marie Dumaboc
