The campaign platform of Lakas-Kampi-CMD standard bearer, Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. to perk up economic activities in the provinces gets support from local executives.

Teodoro earlier vowed, if elected President, to work for the economic uplift of rural areas so that the majority of Filipinos may be able to enjoy the modernity and benefits of their fellowmen in urban areas in Luzon.

“Under a Teodoro Administration, people in Visayas and Mindanao will no longer complain they feel they are second class citizens in their own country because they don’t experience the economic stability enjoyed by Filipinos living in Metro Manila and other urban areas in Luzon,” noted Saranggani governor and Lakas-Kampi-CMD national president Rene Miguel “Migz” Dominguez as he pledged support to Teodoro’s plan.

Although he assured that people in Luzon need not fear about enjoying less of the national economic pie, Dominguez said what Teodoro will do is to launch programs and projects to make poor areas in Visayas and Mindanao more attuned to business; politically stable; and peaceful for local and foreign investors to come in.

“Take the Maguindanao massacre crisis, if we cut the vicious cycle of poverty-illiteracy-violence-and-terrorism, we would not have had this problem with the Ampatuans and the hundreds of millions we spend for the police and the army to keep peace there could have been spend in the building of vital roads and bridges to make the place accessible to investors,” he said.

Dominguez said Teodoro’s deep concern for poor provinces has endeared him to the Visayan governors who recently pledged to support Teodoro’s candidacy “sink or swim.”

Those who recently signed a manifesto of support for Teodoro’s Candidacy were Cebu Gov. Gwen Garcia, followed by Gov. Sally Perez of Antique, Gov. Felipe Nava of Guimaras, Gov. Carlito Marguez of Aklan, Gov. Orlando Fua of Siquiqor, Eastern Samar Gov. Domingo Evardone, Saranggani Gov. Rene Miguel “Migz” Dominguez, Negros Occidental Gov. Isidro Sayco and Bohol Gov. Erico Aumentado.