 Formerly the Postmaster General under Cory Aquino and then head of the Philippine Tourism Authority during the Joseph Estrada administration, he later became administrator of the National Food Authority under Secretary of Agriculture Proceso Alcala during the presidency of Benigno Aquino III.He resigned from the latter post in September 2012 to run for the House of Representatives, but then withdrew from the race in December of that same year.Banayo grew up in Butuan City, Agusan del Norte where his family had moved in the 1960s.