Ouano to let daughter decide on mayoralty run

PROVINCIAL Board (PB) member Thadeo Ouano said he will let his daughter Councilor Emmarie Ouano-Dizon decide if she will run for mayor of Mandaue City in 2013.

“She’s already more than 21. She’s already married. She can decide for herself. But I will only advise, I won’t dictate. My advice is to pray to God,” he said.

The former Mandaue City mayor said this amid reports that the Ouanos are building a political alliance with the Quisumbings. “I could say that the political opposition clearly wants to create that possibility. For what purpose, I really don’t know,” he told Cebu Daily News.

Sources close to the families said Councilor Ouano-Dizon will team up with Elizabeth “Betsy” Quisumbing, mother of Rep. Luigi Quisumbing of Cebu’s 6th district, to run for mayor and vice mayor in 2013.

The elder Quisumbing, who drew up the “Asenso Sixto” livelihood program of her son, said it’s too early to talk about politics.

Councilor Dizon said she would rather talk about reelection.

“As of now, my father and I are running for reelection. The only people talking are those close to us,” she said. Correspondent Carmel Loise Matus