There are those in political circles who say that the acronym “DDS” best stands for the “Diño-Duterte Substitution” rather than the alleged Davao-based vigilante group investigated on and off in the Senate this last quarter of the year.
In recalling the months that led to President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s surprise victory in the May elections, the name Martin Diño will surely ring a bell as PDP-Laban’s first presidential bet, and who, along with the rest of the political party, waited with bated breath until the Davao Mayor finally decided to run for the highest office in the land, substituting his candidacy.