“It is best that I concentrate on being a mayor now because this is my last term”.

This is what Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia said yesterday when asked if he is going to run for congressman in the 2013 l elections.

It is too early to talk about it yet, he added.

Leonardia said that he wants to focus his attention on the things that must do before his term as mayor ends, and thinking about the elections will just disrupt his work.

Speculations continue to circulate in the city that Leonardia is already set to go against incumbent Rep. Anthony Golez, who was his partymate in 2010 elections, but the mayor said that everything remains just that, speculations.

“One thing I learned in the years that I have been in politics is that you cannot choose your political foe, so why bother?” Leonardia said.

“Politics should not be played like wrestling or boxing, it should be like track and field where everybody has their own track, where they should run to avoid hurting their contenders”, he also said.

Meanwhile, Leonardia said the city government has received P3 million in cash from the office of Senator Teofisto Guingona III.

He said half of it is allotted for the allowances of the barangay health workers, while the rest will be utilized for the construction of concrete roads in Purok Kabulakan, Brgy. Singcang Aiport, and at UNO-R Ville.

The city government will also facilitate a meeting between Guingona and the barangay health workers next week.

Guingona will be in Bacolod City on March 17 to attend the National Risk Reduction Management Seminar initiated by the office of Senator Aquilino Pimentel III to be held at the West Negros University.*APN

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