(BOOMING APPROVAL. A sectoral assembly of the “masa” — scavengers, indigenous students, and PWDs greet Vice Gov. Dennis “Delta” Pineda with thunderous applause with his introduction as “the next governor of Pampanga” at the Bren Z. Guiao Convention Center on Monday. Photo by Bong Lacson)
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO— “Ya pung buri kung kayabe. (It is him I would like to work with).”
Pampanga Gov. Lilia Pineda has left no doubt about her total confidence in the leadership of her son, Vice Governor Dennis “Delta” Pineda, expressing it like a wish for her 68th birthday.
“Sana po wala nang may sakit, ( I hope there would be no more be sick people)” went her second wish.
She expressed her wishes during the Quarterly General Assembly with Sectoral Groups. Held at the Bren Z. Guiao Convention Center here on Monday, the assembly drew 1,500 people with disability, 1,502 scavengers, 716 Aeta education scholars and 57 chemodialysis patients.
Governor Pineda thanked the vice governor and provincial board members for approving a budget that provides various forms of assistance to marginalized sectors.
“If not for the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (where the vice governor is the presiding officer), I would not be able to make our government help you all,” she said.
She said she was seeking the vice governor’s seat to be able to “continue serving the Kapampangans.” She is running unopposed.
In her three terms as governor, the provincial govenment has spent P16.1 billion in infrastucture projects, social services, medical assistance, economic development and disaster risk reduction and management.
Vice Gov. Pineda said he was not letting her mother down, vowing to continue her “legacy of service to the people.”
“Kung papalarin po tayo, lalo po akong magsisipag sa pagseserbisyo. (When luck favors me, I will aspire to be more hardworking in rendering services),” the younger Pineda said.
