DIPOLOG CITY - Mary Fatima “Timi” Gomez Aquino visited the city recently to serve as guest
speaker during the Women’s Month celebration and to speak for her husband, Bam Aquino,
who is running for the senate in the May 2013 midterm elections.
Timi told the local media
in a press conference that her husband deserves to be elected, as “he is not just
theoretical but practical” as well.
Claiming as her husband’s
cheer leader, Mrs. Aquino enumerated Bam’s achievements and accomplishments
from his childhood days till today.
“Bam’s life was in public
service. When he was about six to eight years old, he was already the speaker
of the family in rallies during the time of People Power Revolution or EDSA I,”
Timi said.
He also excelled both in
school and in his work, having graduated valedictorian in his elementary and
secondary education at the Ateneo de Manila University, finishing Summa cum laude
at the same school in Management Engineering degree in 1999,
and was appointed chairman of the National Youth Commission at the age of 25.
He once joined the ABS-CBN
Foundation and hosted the Y Speak in Studio 23, a youth-oriented debate show.
While serving at NYC, Bam
and his team devised two remarkable projects to be implemented yearly, namely,
the Ten Accomplished Youth Organizations Search (TAYO)
and the Presidential Youth Fellowship Program (PYFP).
“Bam received multiple national and
international awards such as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World for
2012,
Asian Social Entrepreneur of the Year, United Nations Project Inspire Grand
Prize awards for the HaPinoy Program, Ten
Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines GoNegosyo Inspiring Young
Entrepreneur, and many more,” Timi disclosed.
“This is the perfect time
for Bam to run for public office with his three key points namely: his
childhood, his involvement in public service and motivation,” she added.
In summing up the Aquinos,
Timi said: “Ninoy may be an advocate for Kalayaan
(freedom), Cory an icon of democracy, PNoy a firm crusader for good
governance, and Bam would be the number one promoter of trabaho (work) to curb
poverty.”
