PRESIDENTIAL daughter and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte took to social media on Saturday to slam a forensic pathologist who claimed that her pregnancy was meant to draw media mileage for her father, President Rodrigo Duterte.
“The problem with you is you don’t like the grandfather that’s why you attack even my three unborn children,” Mayor Duterte said on her Instagram account a day forensic pathologist Raquel Fortun posted something in her Twitter account that many people felt to be ill-meant.
“Too early to rejoice over seven weeker, especially for triplets. Wait for delivery and spare oneself from heartache. PR for Lolo [PR for Grampa]?” she said.
But Mayor Duterte, who once punched a court sheriff for refusing to stop a demolition of squatters, slammed Fortun for her supposed ill wishes.
“Turn off your twitter, do your work, mind your own business and spare yourself the heartache,” the mayor said in Visayan.
“Please take note, that public officials need to explain their absence in important events. And [if] I do get the heartache, it will still be a media blitz and when we defy the odds it will be a PR fiesta and you will still be Miss Bittermelon,” the mayor said.
Within hours after the mayor posted her remarks, Fortun again took to Twitter to clarify that she was misinterpreted and wished the presidential daughter well.
“Came from work haven’t read everything on my (timeline) yet. I never doubted your pregnancy Mayor Duterte I do wish you well. Had 2 miscarriages myself,” she added.
Fortun made the posts after Sara announced on Friday she could not join the Kadayawan festivities because she was “having a hard time with the symptoms as well as the complications of a multi-fetal pregnancy.”
She explained that she was seven weeks on the way with triplets although she vowed to work as much as her doctor allows.