A direct descendant of Filipino heroine Melchora “Tandang Sora” Aquino has strongly endorsed Lakas-Kampi-CMD presidential bet Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro to the residents of Quezon City (QC).

Interviewed by reporters over the weekend, Rep. Mary Ann Susano, who is running for QC mayor, said she and her family are strongly batting for Teodoro, claiming that the ruling party standard bearer is the most qualified among those running for president in the May 10 elections.

Susano said that in QC thousands of her constituents are aware that "this is the most important elections of our lifetime and they know what this entails in the selection of a president because their future depends on it."

"As far as I know, in Quezon City the people are one hundred percent knowledgeable about what Gibo has accomplished," Susano said.

Susano is the great grandchild of Tandang Sora, the most prominent heroine of the Philippine Revolution against Spain in 1896.

She recalled that it was in Tandang Sora’s farm house in Barangay Banilad, formerly in Caloocan City but is now part of QC, that Andres Bonifacio and the Katipuneros plotted to overthrow the Spanish regime through an armed struggle. Already 86 years old when she was involved in the revolution, Tandang Sora fed the Katipuneros and attended to the sick and wounded.

Susano was among those who attended last Friday’s birthday celebration of Teodoro’s wife, Tarlac Rep. Monica “Nikki” Prieto-Teodoro who marked the event with her husband and some 4,000 schoolchildren from poor families in QC District II.

Susano, a member of the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC), is among the NPC leaders rooting for Teodoro, who used to be the president of the party founded by his uncle, industrialist Eduardo Cojuangco Jr.

From QC in the north side of Metro Manila to the historic Parañaque City in the south, crowds received Teodoro warmly in his campaign sorties. In Parañaque City, he walked as he chatted with Baclaran public market vendors who hung improvised posters as declaration of their support.

The 1989 Bar topnotcher opted not to ride on the pick-up truck for his motorcade and instead walked alongside Parañaque Mayor Florencio Bernabe Jr. and senatorial candidate Silvestre "Bebot" Bello III to meet the vendors who stopped to see the presidential candidate up close.