BATO, Camarines Sur --- A billboard which says that the construction of a flood control wall here is a priority project of the provincial and the local government has been dismantled upon instruction of 4th District Congressman Felix Alfelor Jr.

        This was disclosed by Ed Olleres, Alfelor’s political consultant spokesman in an interview aired over BWR-FM, over the weekend.

        The move, according to Olleres, was meant to avoid confusion caused by the existence of two conflicting billboards regarding the same infrastructure project.

        “With the dismantling of that billboard, the people of Bato will be enlightened that the provincial government and even the administration of Mayor Jeanette Bernaldez, contrary to what they claimed, has nothing to do with the project; he stressed.

        He said , the fact that the 4th engineering district of the Department of Public Works and Highways is the one implementing the project and not the provincial engineers office is enough proof that both the provincial and the local government of Bato know nothing about the project.

        He further explained that the P10 million project came to from the National Disaster Coordinating Council as pledged by presidential aspirant and Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro during his visit in Iriga City some three months ago, through the initiative of congressman Alfelor.

        Bernaldez, who supported both Alfelor and Gov. L-Ray Villafuerte during the 2007 elections, opted to keep mum on the issue.

        In the same interview, Olleres said that the 3rd termer solon would definitely run and face-off with Villafuerte in the upcoming 2010 elections.

        Alfelor first ran and won as congressman during the 1995 elections but lost his bid in the 1998 polls against Vice Governor Salvio Fortuno. He staged a comeback in 2001 election and scored two more victories in the 2004 and 2007 elections.