A ‘storm’ is brewing over Aurora province as if the calamitous effects of nature’s wrath are not enough.
This province is now on the brink of change, with two groups- the Angara group and its minions, on one hand, and the Noveras clan on the other, – maneuvering for control.
In 2007, the Angara-Noveras feud boiled over. During the elections, the late senator Edgardo Angara’s nephew Rommel Rico Angara suffered a defeat against Gerardo “Jerry” Noveras for the gubernatorial post.
In 2010 polls, the Angara’s fielded an ally, Danilo Tolentino, who lost to the then incumbent Governor Noveras, negating the influence of a sitting senator.
With his senatorial term ending, Angara filed for a gubernatorial run in 2013 but backed out at the last minute when surveys showed him tailing the incumbent governor by a mile.
Instead, Angara fielded his brother, Arturo Angara, to challenge Noveras in the 2013 elections where Noveras emerged victorious.
Unfortunately, ended up getting suspended but he had managed to finish his term in tandem with his son, Christian Noveras as vice-governor.
In the 2022 elections, Christian won as governor while his father took office as vice governor.
However, they’ve been beset with various charges and the Commission on Elections disqualified the older Noveras from his post as vice governor.
Early this year, the court placed the young Noveras under a 90-day preventive suspension effective Feb. 05, 2024 over an election case where his father and two provincial employees were implicated.
An Angara ally, Reynante Tolentino took over as acting governor and he’s the first to break the news of the impending dismissal order against the Noveras.
The Noveras-Angara saga became more intriguing since it’s widely believed that Senator Sonny Angara would soon be joining the fray to vie for governor of Aurora, according to the grapevine.
Or the young Angara could just seek a House seat and allow his proxies to carry on the fight for governorship?
For the Angara’s, the Noveras’ reign must end, by any means and the ‘dismissal’ could be the solution to the former’s long festering headache.
Well, not if the hardy and wise Aurorenos would get in the way.
Let’s wait and see.
