Lakas-Kampi-CMD presidential bet Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. gathered one of the biggest crowd to fill the vast Rizal MeMorial Sports Complex when nearly 80,000 people attended the administration party miting de avance Friday night.

Tens of thousands of green-shirted supporters of Teodoro started filling 3/4 of the whole area including the footbal and track oval field.

Only Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla was not present during the ultimate campaign event for the administration party.

“The silent majority have spoken. They know that the poll survey results fed to the media are nothing but lies,” said Lakas-Kampi-CMD secretary general Ray Roquero.

Roquero, former administrator of the sports complex in Manila, said Teodoro and the whole Lakas-Kampi-CMD team wrote history because the last time the Rizal oval was filled with spectators was in 1930 during the Far-Eastern Games between Japan and China where the Philippines then was lording it over the Far Eastern Games.

Aside from the nearly 100,000 supporters in the Rizal football and oval field, millions of backers around the country also joined the event via live satellite feed.

The bulk of Gibo's supporters and volunteers along with Lakas-Kampi-CMD partymates who packed the Rizal track and field area came from Taguig, Las Piñas, Parañaque, Pasay City, Navotas, Manila, San Juan, Caloocan, Pasig, Muntinlupa, Quezon City, Pateros, Cavite, Bulacan, Pampanga, Laguna, Batangas, Quezon, Pangasinan, Baguio, Isabela, Bicol, Tarlac, Cebu, and Davao, among others.

Seen at the grounds were Reps. Matias Defensor of Quezon City; Elpidio Barzaga of Cavite; Magi Gunigundo of Valenzuela; Roman Romulo of Pasig City; and Mayors Benhur Abalos of Mandaluyong City and Jenny Barzaga of Dasmarinas, Cavite.

These supporters had converged from various points in Manila before marching in hordes towards the miting de avance venue while chanting “Dapat Gibo!”

Gibo said he had chosen May 7 as the day of the Lakas-Kampi-CMD grand event because it was also the birth anniversary of his late father, former SSS administrator Gilberto Teodoro Sr.

"This is a very special day for me because it is also the birthday of my father," Gibo had said in a recent interview. "Setting it on May 7 will also allow our delegates, supporters and volunteers who drove or planed in from the provinces enough time to return to their respective voting places so that they can exercise their constitutional right on May 10."

Former Press Secretary Mike Toledo, who is now Gibo's spokesman, said that the miting de avance was "the final show of force of the silent majority rooting for President Gibo."

"Ang mga walang kibo na para kay Gibo finally broke their silence and decided to actively show their 100 percent support for him by leaving the comfort of their homes and offices and braving the scorching heat in a final show of force for the man they believe will best lead the country to a better and more vibrant future beyond 2010," Toledo, who is also director of the g1BO 2010 Media Bureau, said.

Besides Gibo, leading the grand event were his runningmate, vice presidential candidate Edu Manzano; and the ruling party’s six senatorial bets—former Justice Secretary Silvestre Bello III, lawyer Raul Lambino, broadcaster Rey Langit, Binalonan Mayor and League of Municipalities president Ramon Guico, and reelectionist senators Bong Revilla and Lito Lapid.

Toledo said "the imminent poll victory of the Lakas-Kampi-CMD standard-bearer is founded on the overwhelming support for Gibo from a wide gamut of sectors ranging from young voters plus sectoral and party-list groups like the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) to religious groups like the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus: The Name Above Every Name and local elective officials from legislators to governors who will ride on the formidable grassroots machinery of the ruling party."

The TUCP is the country's organized labor bloc with some 1.2 million members and is one of 19 party-list groups that publicly endorsed Gibo's candidacy in a press conference last Tuesday, he said.