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“I’M so excited / And I just can’t hide it.”

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That’s how the violet vice mayor must have felt while morphing into city mayor on Thursday night. But the excitement went pfft after less than a day when the yellow city mayor was reinstated on Friday afternoon.

On Friday morning, however, some Cagayanons were already talking about the Night Cafe’s big comeback to Divisoria in December per the new violet city mayor’s reported plans for Christmas. Que horror! But that’s not going to happen now that the yellow is the city mayor again. Yehey!

On Facebook, there was chika that the ultra-short reign–I call it the quickie–would go down in Cagayan de Oro history and even make it to the Guinness World Records as the shortest mayoral reign ever. As for his pink vice mayor who was once yellow and has since been adopted by the violet party when she decided to join the fun run towards the House of Representatives–whew!–her vice mayoral reign may have been as short, but writing about the history behind her headlines is definitely not.

There are at least two ways to reach the highest seat in the city. One is to run and win in the election. The other is to charge many cases against the incumbent city mayor and hope the ombudsman would kick him outta city hall. The latter worked for a while, making the yellow’s enemies happy. But now that he’s back until another case is hurled against him, it seems like kicking him out will require an election like the one next year.

When he won in 2013, somehow we knew he would be at city hall for three terms. Hmmm. Puera buyag? Meanwhile, wannabes have to wait till 2022 in making their mayoral dreams come true, and they can practice and hone their political skills by joining the fun runs for city councilor, vice mayor, congressman, barangay chairman or barangay kagawad.

My niece celebrated her birthday in the US and the color motif was violet. Her mom posted photos of the huge flowers she made for the garden party, and some of them were violet. The table napkins were violet and green. The ecobag giveaways were violet. I wanted to tell them what violet means here in CDO but I didn’t have the heart to ruin their excitement for the party. At least green was the other color for the table napkins.

I have not exactly given away my violet tops, I still wear them at home or for walking and exercise. Sayang man pud. I’m obviously a hoarder, the type that keeps anything and everything that inspires the hoarder’s catch-all phrase, Just in case.

I’ve also kept in storage the flowery tops that could attract bees. Those were my slimmer days, when flaunting the curves with light-colored clothes would still inspire some two-legged bees to bite. Hehe. Just in case?

Also in storage are denim jeans that are small-ish and refuse to expand above the knees. I would have to lose 36 pounds if I want to squeeze into them. Just in case?

And that’s probably how the Ajinomoto case was filed against the yellow mayor. Just in case the ombudsman sees this case the way the accuser sees it.

An honest politician is as rare as a talking fish–both don’t exist. Because of our awareness on what politicians are capable of doing, we’re happy if at least they’re not into plundering and pork barrel scamming.

Some of the alleged plunderers and pork barrel scammers have continued to roam around freely and have even joined the Election 2016 fun run, because they’re not guilty until proven guilty. If they’re proven guilty, they can be jailed until a forgiving president pardons them, thereby, inadvertently allowing them to run again in an election. And here’s the Pinoy voter, always forgiving, never learning, willing to absorb all the promises that political candidates make while on the campaign trail.

When the Ajinomoto case was revealed, many Cagayanons were shocked with the harsh punishment for the yellow city mayor–dismissed from service, forever banned from running for public office–for such a minor offense if compared to plunder and the pork barrel scam. But there are conspiracy theories surrounding this one and, we, the madlang pehpohl, are clueless as usual.

For now, the yellows are happy. Some of them were even crying on Friday afternoon upon learning that the yellow mayor had been reinstated. But his enemies and frenemies were celebrating while the dismissal was hanging over his head, with two of them raising their right hands with glee as they promised to do their duties as the new mayor and vice mayor. A few hours of glee, less than a day of glee. They were so excited, they couldn’t hide it. Wheeeee!

Pinoys love underdogs. With the yellow mayor now looking like an underdog after what he went through, can he begin to look forward to the May 2016 election? You know, just in case?

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