Acting Makati Mayor Romulo Peña Jr. issuing a ‘self-serving’ press statement attributing the city’s January to August collection figures to his barely two-month-old stay in office is the height of “credit-grabbing” and “epal tactics,” according to the camp of Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin “Junjun” Binay Jr.

“Epal” comes from the shortened, inverted “mapapel” or attention-seeker.

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