THE most important lesson that defeated presidential candidate Manny Villar learned from the 2010 race is that it does not pay to campaign early “since anything can happen along the way.”

For example, last year so many things happened in our country in a period of six months. We had the Zamboagan stand- off, the Bohol quake, the Napoles scandal over the Priority Development Assistance Fund and then Super Typhoon Yolanda, Villar said.

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