THE family of former Cabinet secretary Leoncio Evasco Jr., who is running for Bohol governor in the May 13 elections, has sought assistance from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) over security threats.
In a letter dated April 1 to NBI Director Dante Gierran, the Evasco family requested a team "from the NBI Central Office" to investigate an alleged assassination plot against the gubernatorial candidate "to remove all doubts and suspicions."
Evasco is running under the Nationalist People's Coalition-Hugpong.
"It is our hope that this investigation will result not only in determining whether the said assassination plot is true or not. In the event that the said plot is confirmed, we trust that this investigation will result to the unmasking of the identities of the assassins contracted for the plot but most especially for the people who contracted them," Evasco's wife, Florira, and children Mikhael, Fidel and Fanshen, said in the request.
The family said that unmarked motorcycles were seen running alongside the vehicles of Evasco. (PNA)