"I have valid reasons, one of them and most important is that the remaining tasks that we have to do in the remaining months of my term are far more valuable than what I can do in a three-year term of any elective position that I was contemplating running for," he told The STAR.
Payumo is referring to the P12-billion world-class port development project in Cubi Point and the Subic-Clark-Tarlac toll road, two complimentary flagship projects of the Arroyo administration. — Bebot Sison Jr.