MANILA, Philippines -- Internet broadband whistleblower Rodolfo Lozada Jr., is welcome to go to Pampanga, the homeprovince of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, according to its governor Ed Panlilio.

“Everyone is welcome here,” Panlilio told reporters Tuesday when asked whether Lozada, who has been going around the country to campaign against corruption, would be welcome in the presidential turf.

But Panlilio said Lozada’s camp had not contacted his office so far.

Lozada had mounted a campaign against corruption following his exposés on the alleged anomalous $329-million National Broadband Network (NBN) deal with Chinese firm ZTE Corporation.

President Arroyo and her husband had been linked to supposed million-dollar payoffs in the now scuttled NBN-ZTE deal, prompting fresh calls for her to resign.

Asked to comment on the move of the Camarines Sur diocese barring priests there from celebrating mass for Lozada, Panlilio, a priest-turned-politician, said that the mass should be “open for all.”

The church “is for everybody, saints and sinners,” he said. Christine O. Avendaño