Dela Cruz, in an interview yesterday, disclosed that San Nicolas, who has asked the NMI Republican Party to go after the mayor, is attacking him because he did not get the lights he requested for his farm.
Because he is also concerned about the safety of people using the road and the properties of the other farmers in the area, Dela Cruz said he relayed San Nicolas’ request to Telesource, the firm contracted by Commonwealth Utilities Corp. to provide power on Tinian.
But because CUC still owes Telesource an undisclosed amount of money, the company cannot provide road lights in the area, the mayor said.
Since then, Dela Cruz said San Nicolas has been attacking his office and his chief executive officer, Allen Perez.
He said he already explained to San Nicolas that Telesource “called the shots.”
Dela Cruz said San Nicolas even tried to harass members of the municipal council.
He said San Nicolas’s request to the GOP to “act” against him, the mayor, is motivated by “personal ire.”
He said the request is unlikely to happen.
He noted that San Nicolas is not even a member of the Republican Party.
“He never even showed up in the campaign during the last general elections. I don’t know where this guy is coming from,” the mayor said.
San Nicolas asked Shai to take immediate action on Dela Cruz, claiming that the Republican mayor “has failed to live up to his campaign promises and has apparently betrayed the trust and respect of our people and his strongest supporters, and has squandered the goodwill of our people.”
The GOP, San Nicolas said, “needs to discuss in greater depth the implications of Dela Cruz’s current and future actions.”
San Nicolas added, “If we are to remain a united and cohesive party, one man with a tainted image must not be responsible for the destruction of the whole.”
San Nicolas lashed out at Dela Cruz’s “poor decisions, questionable transactions and irrational reactions” that have proven “disastrous for his administration, to the people of Tinian and the Republican Party.”
