THREE groups previously fighting the government signed a joint declaration last Sunday in Davao City “to support the people’s grant of revolutionary powers to President Rodrigo R. Duterte.”
Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) Davao State Gen. Rolando Aziz Olamit rallied more than 300 delegates, saying, “President Duterte is our last card and we can’t wait for another three to five decades to find another Duterte.”
“We must push hard today’s federalism and ask the President to declare a revolutionary government,” he added in his statement before he signed what they called “a historic document in the historic time of the century when revolutionaries from sovereign nations from the north to the south gather and agree to uphold and support federalism.”
Forging unity with the MNLF to call the President to declare a revolutionary government (RevGov) to realize federalism are the Cordillera People’s Liberation Army (CPLA), Rebolusyonaryong Alyansang Makabansa (RAM), Philippine Solidarity Federal Party (PSFP), Guardians fraternity and retired military officers associated with ex-putchist Gen. Jose Gamos.
CPLA was represented by its chairman, Mailed Melina; RAM by its vice president, Col. Nestor Floredeliza; Guardians by master founder Jose Duremdes; and PSFP by its founding chairman, Joel Obar.
Dr. Zuraida Comedoy, PSFP vice president for education and advocacy, said the spirit of Edsa People Power Revolution was not in Edsa, but in Davao City with the “joint declaration of the revolutionaries right in the President’s home city.”
Obar said their struggle for federalism is “a peaceful one” via the President’s declaration.
He added they do not believe in the “top-down” concept of federalism by Congress, but five to six states first should be created with all the present regions as “substates” by the President via RevGov “before the law would be passed on federalism.”
“Ours is bottoms-up,” he said.