I am in Davao City as we speak. I can assure you, the people of Davao City like him. I have been to the Hall of Justice, and have seen the hallways stacked almost to the ceiling with court cases. I wonder how they manage to get anything done, but the common people were about fed up with their justice system. I think he was so popular in Davao City, because he got stuff done, and cleaned the place up.
I went to Lady Doc's source and printed it out from the source (strategypage) ... a very good read.
He named a real estate developer as an enemy yesterday who was going to develop his own property with Log Cabins and owns some large properties in Manila. Seems like a random prosecution other than he had ties to Marcos.