by Djingo Madua
A controversial Facebook blogger has accidentally leaked an alleged mansion of a lawmaker in the Second District of Bohol.
Makati-based tennis player Willy Ramasola, who is now facing a cyber libel case filed by the Holy Name University (HNU), insinuated on Facebook Wednesday night, Feb. 3, 2021, about a mansion allegedly owned by Congressman Erico Aristotle Aumentado and his wife in Dauis, a municipality belonging to the first district of Bohol.
Aumentado is the representative of the second district of Bohol. He will end his last term (9th year) in 2022 in which he has been rumored to run as governor of Bohol. (Editor’s Note: The congressman repeatedly denied that he has plans to run for any position in the 2022 polls.)
In a surprising Facebook post by Ramasola, the blogger wrote in a question-and-answer style in which he answered his own questions.
“They say it is actually Congressman Aris Aumentado, and not Art Yap, who owns a mansion. And this is in Dauis… Is this true”? Ramasola asked.
Ramasola answered Yes and No.
“I talked to Congressman Aris and his wife Vanessa about it and they didn’t deny that they are building a house in Dauis,” revealed Ramasola on Facebook.
The wife of Aumentado has been openly declaring her bid for a seat in Congress in next year’s elections. (Editor’s Note: Cong. Aumentado categorically announced that his wife, Maria Vanessa, will run for the post of second district representative in the 2022 elections.)
The blogger continued: “I am not sure if it is big enough for you to call it a Mansion. Let’s just say it’s just a house.”
Ramasola’s post shocked netizens. Nowhere in his years of attacks against Gov. Arthur Yap’s administration had he mentioned of a Dauis mansion allegedly owned by the Aumentado couple.
For the first time, and out of nowhere, since he accused Yap of owning an alleged mansion in Baclayon town, Ramasola dropped a bombshell and dragged a mansion in Dauis allegedly owned by Congressman Aumentado in his Facebook rumblings.
Moreover, Yap, a lawyer by profession, denied any ownership of a mansion as alleged by Ramasola on his social media posts.
The former Cabinet secretary and congressman in the third district of Bohol dared the blogger to come up with pieces of evidence and documents, saying the malicious imputation of a vice or crime in Ramasola’s posts is libelous.
The incumbent governor, in a radio interview, said he is not surprised with the consistent proliferation of lies and fake news levelled against him since election season is just around the corner.
Furthermore, Yap said the people of Bohol have not forgotten how former Gov. Rene Relampagos, now Bohol’s vice governor, was demolished and destroyed by relentless newspaper and radio propaganda alleging that the former allegedly owns a Baclayon mansion.
Relampagos’ alleged Baclayon mansion issue may have led to the current Vice Governor’s defeat against then Rep. Erico B. Aumentado, father of Cong. Aris, in the May 2001 gubernatorial elections.