Former senator Victor Ziga of Albay dies at 75

Former senator Victor Ziga of Albay died on Sunday afternoon, January 31. He was 75.

“It’s never easy to say goodbye to someone you love. My true inspiration, motivation and mentor. I will always look up to you. I may not achieve the things you’ve done as senator, governor, assemblyman and cabinet member. But the best is you’re my Papa,” Board Member Victor Ziga Jr, of the first district of Albay said in a Facebook post.

Ziga was born in Manila on September 30, 1945 to couple Venancio Ziga, who also served as former governor of Albay, and Senator Tecla San Andres Ziga, the first woman in the country to top the bar examination.

Ziga served as Albay’s governor, an assemblyman, a cabinet secretary, and as a board director of the San Miguel Corporation.

Ziga ran and won in the 1984 Batasang Pambansa elections. In 1986, he was appointed as minister of general services and became a senator in 1987 and served as chairman of the Commission on Appointments, on the Senate Electoral Tribunal and on 16 committees. – Rappler.com