Despite criticizing his putative political fellow traveler in Malacañang for being “a bad manager” and having a Cabinet full of “non-performing assets” who, among other things, have failed to produce anything meaningful in the once-ballyhooed Public-Private Partnership initiative, Senator Sergio Osmeña 3rd has shown a curious willingness to be his own wrench in the gears of progress. In a press conference last week, Osmeña threatened to file a suit against the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) if it proceeds with awarding a bid for the P17.5-billion Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) project to the consortium of Megawide and India-based GMR Infrastructure, whose winning bid was protested by the losing consortium of Filinvest and Singapore-based Changi Airports International.
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