{"id":32208,"date":"2014-11-19T11:11:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T03:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=32208"},"modified":"2014-11-20T06:37:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T22:37:20","slug":"drilon-detractor-ignores-persona-non-grata-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/19\/drilon-detractor-ignores-persona-non-grata-label\/","title":{"rendered":"Drilon detractor ignores \u2018persona non grata\u2019 label"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11415\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11415\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Franklin-Drilon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11415\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Franklin-Drilon-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Senate President Franklin Drilon. Photo courtesy of Drilon's official Facebook page.\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Franklin-Drilon-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Franklin-Drilon-600x375.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Franklin-Drilon.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate President Franklin Drilon. Photo courtesy of Drilon&#8217;s official Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Former Iloilo provincial administrator Manuel Mejorada shrugs off the move of the Iloilo City Council, declaring him a \u201cpersona non grata.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Mejorada said during an interview in Bombo Radyo that City Council members are taking orders from Major Jed Patrick Mabilog. Mejorada was the one who filed a plunder complaint against Senate President Franklin Drilon last month.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the City Council lacks \u201ccommon sense\u201d in issuing the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Last week when he faced the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, he blamed Drilon and other Cabinet officials for launching the \u201coverpriced\u201d Iloilo Convention Center project.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from this, he also referred to Iloilo City as the country\u2019s \u201cbird\u2019s nest of corruption\u201d during his meeting with the panel.<\/p>\n<p>However, he admitted that he had no proof about the corruption claims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to admit that right now there&#8217;s no evidence, because right now I have no subpoena powers,&#8221; Mejorada said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Former Iloilo provincial administrator Manuel Mejorada shrugs off the move of the Iloilo City Council, declaring him a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[4772],"class_list":["post-32208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-drilon","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}