AKBAYAN Youth has plastered posters along Kalayaan Avenue in Quezon City to discredit Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy.
These are young activists whose views are consistently anti-government.
Former CPP-NPA-NDF cadre Peter Mutuc sees Akbayan’s actions as a desperate move.
In an interview with SMNI, Mutuc explained that Akbayan Youth’s promotion by Sen. Risa Hontiveros is propaganda to win in the upcoming elections.
“What happened to Akbayan? Did Akbayan manage to get a party-list member into Congress? None! They used to have two. They keep chanting, what’s it called, the slogan… “Otso Diretso down the toilet”. And this will happen again if Risa Hontiveros doesn’t stop what she’s doing,” said Peter ‘Ka Ramon’ Mutuc, CPP-NPA-NDF First Generation Cadre.
Akbayan was part of the electoral alliance of candidates under the Otso Diretso Slate who lost in the 2019 Mid-Term Elections.
Aside from Akbayan, the coalition also included the Liberal Party, Magdalo, and Aksyon Demokratiko.
So according to Mutuc, the smear campaigns against Pastor Apollo are clearly politically motivated to persuade voters in the elections.
“It’s political expediency! Risa Hontiveros, because in the upcoming elections in 2025, she won’t be there anymore. In the past election, they didn’t get any candidate through,” said Mutuc.
Aligned with former NPA cadres, Mutuc believes that Akbayan will never return to Congress.
And as for Hontiveros’s re-election bid next year:
“This won’t pass because people are angry with her, they’re angry with her. Because what she’s doing, her disrespect, her insults to Pastor Quiboloy have no— no good outcome,” he added.
Mutuc also warned that if Hontiveros doesn’t stop smearing Pastor Apollo, someone will emerge and speak up to reveal to the public that she has no moral authority to criticize the good Pastor.