Zubiri promises to be back in 2013

HE may have resigned from the Senate but Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri vowed to to stage a grand comeback in 2013.

“This is a temporary setback, I will come back with a bang,” Zubiri told the Inquirer in a phone interview yesterday.

He said he would make a comeback and run for a Senate slot in 2013 so that he could continue serving again in an official capacity.

In the meantime, Zubiri said he would continue working for the interests of the province, where his father hails from, and for the sugar industry in his private capacity.

His father, incumbent Bukidnon Vice Gov. Jose Ma. R. Zubiri, hails from Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental.

Beneficiaries of Zubiri’s projects in Cebu were also saddened by his resignation.

“It’s too bad. Of course, he was performing well, He should not have resigned until all was clear,” said Dr. Rodolfo Burgos, Cebu Technological University vice president for administration.

Zubiri was one of the co-authors of the law creating the university in 2009.

CTU, which has nine campuses in Cebu, became a university on Nov. 10, 2009.

Dr. Lakshmi Legazpi, acting regional director of Department of Health in Central Visayas, thanked Zubiri for extending assistance to the hospitals in the region.

“We thank him for his contribution to improve the facilities of our hospitals (in the region), especially the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center,” Legazpi said.

Cebu Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale, for her part, also lauded Zubiri’s move. She said it was “an honorable thing” to do. Inquirer report with Correspondents Jhunnex Napallacan and Carmel Loise Matus