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Bohol congressman retires incumbent Governor Art Yap

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Composite: Bohol Gov. Art Yap and Rep. Eric Aumentado (right) " src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/news/05/09/20220509-bohol.jpg"/><figcaption><em>Composite: Bohol Gov. Art Yap and Rep. Eric Aumentado (right) </em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA—Incumbent Bohol Governor Art Yap announced his retirement from politics after his rival, Congressman Aris Aumentado, led him and other candidates in Bohol&#x27;s gubernatorial race by a wide margin.</p><p>Yap, in his concession statement, congratulated Aumentado and thanked the Boholanos for the &quot;honor and privilege&quot; of having served them. </p><p>&quot;To all who supported me in my political journey, I will forever be grateful to all of you even as I now announced the closure of my involvement in politics. Now let us put aside difference and unite for the future of Bohol,&quot; he said.</p><div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/artcyap/posts/560541022104424" data-width="auto"> </div><p>As of 2:32 a.m. on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, Aumentado had 458,085 votes to Yap&#x27;s 277,832, based on the Commission on Election&#x27;s partial and unofficial count from 97.85 of election returns. </p><p>The other gubernatorial bets, Hercules Castillo and Concepcion Flores, had 4,131 and 2,624 votes, respectively.</p><p>Aumentado, the incumbent Bohol 2nd District Representative, was a candidate of the Nationalist People&#x27;s Coalition while Yap was the bet of the ruling party PDP-Laban.</p><div><em>Bookmark the <a href="https://halalanresults.abs-cbn.com" target="_blank">ABS-CBN News Halalan results page</a> to see the partial unofficial tally of election returns. </em></div><div><em>For other updates, visit <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/09/22/halalan-2022-abs-cbn-news-updates-on-philippine-elections" target="_blank">ABS-CBN News&#x27; live blog</a> here.</em></div>

Incumbent Bohol Gov. Art Yap announced his retirement from politics after his rival, Rep. Aris Aumentado, led him and other candidates in Bohol's gubernatorial race by a wide margin.