Presidential candidate Mar Roxas is being swamped with a tsunami of barbs from all corners after being accused as behind a smear campaign against Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.

The fireworks come even as Roxas denied being behind a journalist who spread on Facebook a false claim that Duterte has cancer.

As the stab on Roxas, the standard bearer of the administration Liberal Party, continues to pour heavily, the LP called as “silly” Duterte’s claim that Roxas was behind journalist Philip Lustre, who last month wrote in his Facebook account that Duterte is not running in the 2016 election due to throat cancer.

Duterte, who has said he is not running for President despite the strong public clamor for him to join the 2016 presidential derby, denied he has the ailment and tagged Roxas as behind Lustre. READ MORE