“I admire Iloilo City. In fact, idol ko gid si Mayor Jerry Treñas”, Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez said on Thursday, November 10.
Treñas was earlier reported to have questioned what he said was “Benitez claim that Bacolod had surpassed Iloilo City”.
“Ang napiyerdihan ta gid lang sa Bacolod, ang ila wind energy kay ‘syado gid kahangin didto sa Bacolod (we have only lost to Bacolod in its wind energy, because there is so much air in Bacolod)”, he said.
Iloilo City is way ahead of Bacolod in other aspects, he said.
Benitez on Thursday said he and Treñas have long been friends, “I look up to him as a mentor and a yardstick of leadership and initiative.”
The mayor also said he is proud of Bacolod’s recovery so far.
Treñas, in a Facebook post on Thursday, said “the development of Bacolod is important to the region. Iloilo City will always be supportive of all its developmental efforts. We should continue to reinvent and develop otherwise we become irrelevant”.*