 Cebu Vice-Governor Agnes Magpale, was sworn immediately into office as acting governor.Despite this, Garcia said she remains to be the governor.She dared police on December 20, 2012, to forcibly remove her from the governor’s office where she has been holed up since Wednesday after she was ordered suspended for six months, saying her removal could only happen “over my dead body.”

In 2016, Garcia faced 11 counts of graft for the anomalous construction of the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC) in 2006.