CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Oct. 3 (PNA) -– A group of native Kagay-anons on Friday formed a new political party that will endorse only pure Kagay-anons in the 2016 local and presidential elections.
Wowie Obsioma, one of the conveners, said that the scions of the Maagad, Beja, Acenas, and Enerio families have formed the political support group known as “Barug Lumad Kagay-anon”(BLK).
The BLK would push for the candidacies of native Kagay-anons for various elective positions here in the 2016 elections, Obsioma said.
“It’s been a long time that we don’t have a Mayor in the city who is a true-blooded Kagay-anon. It’s high time that we will push and support a candidate for mayor who is a Lumad Kagay-anon” Obsioma explained.
He said that the previous mayors in the early decades here were not pure Kagay-anon.
For instance, the former Mayor Pablo Magtajas hails from the province of Camiguin, former Mayor Vicente Emano came from Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental Province while the incumbent City Mayor Oscar Moreno hails from Balingasag, another town in the Province of Misamis Oriental.
Obsioma said that the group would endorse the candidacies of the Kagay-anon candidates mid-year 2015 and would campaign for their election in the 2016 local and presidential elections. (PNA)