A Facebook post claims that Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva has resigned after his photos and videos in the company of a Public Works engineer who had been tagged in anomalous flood control projects have gone viral.
This is not true. There has been no such announcement from Villanueva, who remains a member of the 20th Congress.
Published on Aug. 28, the post read:
“KAKAPASOK LANG! VILLANUEVA NAIYAK TULUYAN NG NAGPAALAM, NAG-RESIGN NA SA PWESTO,BUKING NA NI PBBM.”
(Just in! Villanueva cried, ultimately bid goodbye, resigned from his position, caught by PBBM).
Villanueva has not resigned as a senator. He was still majority leader at the Senate’s plenary session on Sept. 3.
The senator from Bulacan came under fire after photos and videos of him with Henry Alcantara, formerly a district engineer of the Department of Public Works and Highways in the province, surfaced and went viral on social media.
Alcantara admitted in a Sept. 2 public hearing at the House of Representatives that he had signed contracts of P224.9 million worth of “ghost” and substandard flood control projects in Baliwag City and Calumpit town.
In a Sept. 3 interview, Villanueva denied having transactions with Alcantara, saying that his photos with Alcantara that have gone viral were taken during a public event and that other government officials also have photos with the district engineer when they visit DPWH projects in Bulacan . He added:
“Yung sinasabi niyong video, picture, lahat ng opisyal may video [at] picture sa kanya. Official po ‘yun, eh. So ‘pag pumunta ka sa DPWH sa Bulacan — si presidente, mga secretary, mga senador — lahat meron. Pero bakit ako lang ‘yung sini-single out?”
(The video, picture you’re saying, all officials have that with him. He’s an official. So if you go to DPWH in Bulacan — whether the president, secretaries or senators — everybody has that. Why are they singling me out?)
Source: Bilyonaryo News Channel Facebook page, WATCH: Sen. Joel Villanueva eyes legal action …, Sept. 3, 2025 (4:40 to 5:00)
Posted by FB pages Filipina Glitz, which is being managed from Vietnam and the United States, as well as NL Star Buzz and Celebrity Updates, the erroneous post has so far received 954 interactions.
