Ex-mayor bares 2017 plot to smear opposition

by Red Mendoza - Reina C. Tolentino

Sep 20, 2024 12:10 am

FORMER Iloilo City mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog told a congressional panel Thursday he was not the drug protector that former president Rodrigo Duterte made him out to be in 2017.

He also told the quad committee of a plot to have him implicate opposition leaders led by former Senate president Franklin Drilon and former Interior secretary and presidential candidate Mar Roxas in the drug trade, in exchange for taking him off Duterte's so-called narco-list.

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