A socio-civic group that helped launch the presidency of former president Fidel Ramos has formally pledged its support to the candidacy of Lakas-Kampi-CMD standard-bearer Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro.
The Friends of Ramos for Teodoro (FORT), headed by its national president Maricor Imperial, cited Teodoro’s commitment to uphold human rights and his sterling performance as chairman of National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC).
“Gibo Teodoro’s human rights advocacy, to uphold the dignity and worth of every human being, regardless of status, was manifested in his grassroots beginnings in Tarlac and as KB President in Central Luzon, both for six years,” Imperial said.
“His performance as chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) highlighted in the darkest hours of typhoons “Ondoy” and “Pepeng”, has endeared “Gibo” Teodoro to the thousands of victims whose lives he touched and served,” she added.
Friends of Ramos was founded by the late Naga City Mayor Monico L. Imperial, Sr., founder/president of the Bicol Saro, a regional political party organized in 1976. It was in January 1991 that the group was launched at the Inocentes farm in Quezon City, with then Mayor Monico Imperial Sr. as chairman, then Retired Judge Oscar Inocentes as president, and Maricor Imperial as National Coordinator, with various business, civic and NGO leaders nationwide in attendance.
It was one of the convenors of the people’s coalition comprising of eight political parties and 31 NGOs that became the launching pad in January 25, 1991 of then defense secretary, Fidel V. Ramos for President of the Philippines, with the objective of gathering one million signatures to urge FVR to run.
The signature drive culminated in January 4, 1992, at the Club Filipino in which Imperial presented to FVR one million signatures in support of his presidential bid.
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Source: Manila Bulletin
Posted: 12/7/2009
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