Boy Abunda ‘di handa sa Senado

SHOWBIZ KONEK
ni Maricris Valdez Nicasio

“I’m not ready to run for     the senate.” Ito ang tinuran ni Boy Abunda sa kaliwa’t kanang pag-anyaya sa kanya para tumakbong senador sa darating na 2022 elections. Pero inamin naman nitong posibleng sa pagka-kongresista ang takbuhan niya sa kanilang lugar, sa Borongan, Samar.

Ani Kuya Boy, ”It’s a major decision. I’m not ready to run for the Senate. I have been invited to run for the Senate.

“I don’t have the tenacity, I don’t have the strength to run a national campaign. I don’t have the money. I don’t have the national political organization.

“It takes a national organization to run a national campaign. Kailangan mo ng logistics. I don’t have that,” sambit pa ni Kuya Boy.

Sa kabilang banda, inamin naman ni Kuya Boy sa interbyu sa kanya ng ABS-CBN na bukas siya sa pagtakbo sa isang local position, elected man o appointed. Ibig sabihin, puwede siyang tumakbo sa local post lalo na nang ipasara ng kongreso ang Kapamilya Network.

Paliwanag niya, ”I was very emotional, I was very angry. Ang kapatid ko (ang incumbent congresswoman ng Samar na si Maria Fe Abunda), sabi niya sa akin, ‘Eh ‘di tumakbo ka sa atin, mag-congressman ka.’

“It was half-meant, but I knew when she said that, it also came from the heart. ‘Why not go to public service?’ Ang aming nanay at tatay ay nasa public service. Ang kapatid ko ay three-term mayor. Ngayon, congresswoman.

“I thought about. ‘Oo nga, ‘no? I can actually run.’ I’m not closing my doors on politics. Doors are open. “But Senate? No. National position is out of the question,”  sambit pa ni Kuya Boy.

”What I learned in the business is you fight to win. I’ve had so many losses in my life early on, when I didn’t know the art of war.

“Pero, at this point in my life, you go into a contest, not to display your public-speaking prowess, but you go to win. You prepare for it,” aniya pa.