Gibo's gamble for 2022

AFTER a 10-year hiatus, Gilbert "Gibo" Teodoro Jr. is trying to make a political comeback by offering himself up as a vice-presidential running mate to Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, one of the administration's potential contenders for president in next year's elections.

Teodoro, who turns 57 today, June 14, placed fourth among eight candidates in the 2010 presidential race that his estranged second cousin, Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino 3rd won. In 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte asked him to rejoin the government by serving as his secretary of defense, a position he occupied from August 2007 to November 2009 under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. He declined the offer and did not give any reason for turning it down.