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Erico B. Aumentado rose from extreme poverty to become a scholar,
valedictorian in his graduations, lawyer, senior Provincial
Board member, vice-governor, congressman and deputy speaker
of the House of Representatives, and chairman of the influential
52-member bloc of Visayas congressmen.
Today, he is on his unprecedented
3rd term as Governor of Bohol, being the only governor elected
for three consecutive terms, and winning all his political
battles since 1967 to the present. He presided over Bohol’s
phenomenal socio-economic development which pushed the province
outside of the 20 poorest provinces to its present 52nd position
upwards of the country’s 81 provincial LGUs.
He has served as the immediate
past president of the League of Provinces of the Philippines,
and is on his last mile as national president of the Union
of Local Authorities of the Philippines. He likewise sits
as co-chair of the Council of Advisers of the LPP.
He also served as Regional
Development Council and Regional Tourism Council chairman
of Region 7 where he worked for the socio-economic development
of Central Visayas and as a major regional tourism destination
of the country.
He
has brought to Bohol about P15 billion worth of mega infrastructures
and poverty reduction projects. He has restored Bohol as one
of the country’s most peaceful provinces through his
program on Poverty Reduction For Peace and Development as
cited by the National Peace and Order Council, the Gawad Galing
Pook and the National Security Council.
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