Jolo Revilla issues apology after Magellan gaffe

Jolo Revilla issued an apology on Tuesday afternoon after he mistakenly identified Lapulapu as Ferdinand Magellan on social media.

"I apologize for the earlier confusing post on our celebration of Lapu-lapu's victory in Mactan 500 yrs ago," Jolo wrote on social media, explaining an intern posted the caption without clearance.

"Again, my sincerest apologies to our Cebuano kababayans and to all Filipinos," he said.

I apologize for the earlier confusing post on our celebration of Lapu-lapu's victory in Mactan 500 yrs ago.
An intern in our social media team posted the caption to our meme without first clearing it.
Again, my sincerest apologies to our Cebuano kababayans and to all Filipinos.

— Jolo Revilla (@jolorevilla) April 27, 2021

Netizens picked up Jolo's Facebook post celebrating the 500th anniversary of the victory of Mactan where he called Lapulapu, Magellan. 

It has since been corrected.

Since we're here, it would be worth to mention that as recently as January, the National Quincentennial Committee (NQC) reminded everybody that the Mactan ruler's name be spelled without the hyphen: As in Lapulapu. — LA, GMA News