Showing the same vindictive Aquino streak, the late President Cory Aquino’s son, Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino, and his Liberal Party camp are still making the Marcos burial site an election issue despite the fact that decades have passed as he and his camp blasted at Nacionalista Party (NP) presidential bet Sen. Manuel “Manny” Villar for saying that he has no objections to having Marcos buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani burial site.
Aquino said Marcos, while having been a Philippine president, has no place among heroes.
Villar has, in his senatorial slate, the son of the late President Ferdinand Marcos, Bongbong.
Gilbert Teodoro, the administration presidential candidate, has also said that he has no objection to having Marcos buried at the Libingin ng mga Bayani and added that he would probably give Marcos a state funeral.
Noynoy and his party’s campaign manager Butch Abad, in separate statements, insisted that Marcos has no place among Philippine heroes.
This charge from Aquino and his camp was aired to coincide with the 1986 Edsa rites that saw the fall of the Marcos regime and propelled Cory Aquino to the presidency.
Aquino was quoted as saying during the sidelines of a presidential on human rights where that he is against honoring Marcos by having him buried in that burial site.
“He ruled us for so long, from 1965 to 1986, what has he done to warrant a burial at the Libingan ng Mga Bayani)?” Aquino was quoted by GMA-TV on its Web site.
“We had so many problems from that time until now, why should we honor him?” he added.
For Teodoro, despite getting low ratings in various poll surveys,he expressed confidence in his partymates’ full support for his presidential bid in the May elections.
“I firmly believe that I will win in the elections especially on what we call conversion rate — meaning if people see and hear me talking, there’s a big chance that I can convince them to vote for me.
This was said by Teodoro during his radio interview with broadcast anchor Mike Enriquez over station dzBB.
“That’s the reason we are trying to go to different places in the country so that the people will see me in person and hear me talking,” he added.
The former Defense Secretary also denied being a “lapdog” of the administration, being a former member of the Cabinet.
“There is no need for me to face our countrymen if I am just somebody’s lapdog. I am nobody’s lapdog,” he stressed.
Teodoro reiterated his loyalty to the Lakas-Kampi-CMD party, appealing to the public to look at his platforms and track record and not his affiliations.
“I took my oath as chairman of Lakas-Kampi-CMD, I will stand for that... I will never turn my back on my partymates just to win in the election,” he said.
Teodoro said he believes that the voting populace have attained maturity and will judge a candidate not by his affiliation but by his track record and performance.
Meanwhile, as if his numerous infomercials that have been flooding the television sets and airwaves for months now, are not enough to boost his chances at the polls, the camp of Villar has enlisted the help of people’s champ Manny Pacquiao, in lending a hand in the coming days.
Pacquiao will be a regular fixture in the NP campaign sorties immediately after his boxing bout with Joshua Clottey in March.
Villar’s camp yesterday said Pacquiao himself made the promise, to join the campaign trail of the party, to the party recently.
“Soon after my return to the Philippines, I will join my beloved president Manny Villar so I can introduce him to our countrymen,” Pacquiao said Sunday night in Filipino in a videotaped message shown at a concert rally in Mandaue City that capped the party’s two-day barnstorming of vote-rich Cebu province.
In endorsing Villar, Pacquiao said: “He is the only person who can help the poor because he defied poverty to become a successful businessman.”
The video clip was shown by noontime host Willie Revillame as a surprise for Villar, who has then just finished delivering his speech to a crowd in a reclamation area in Cebu.
The boxing champ said he is confident that pro-poor Villar, who like him overcame poverty, will solve the poverty problem.
“He is the only person who can help the poor because he defied poverty to become a successful businessman.” villar
ReplyDeleteI agree but what would be the best when it comes to president administration. Its a big challenge to him that he will stop poverty if he will become a president...
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Noynoy Aquino is a nuisance candidate for me. He's just using his parent's legacy. Most people doesn't realize that they have been tricked by the false promises of the Aquinos and I do believe that the Assassination of Benigno Aquino was a plot.
ReplyDeleteNoynoy doesn't have the right to talk such negative things about the former president. Compared to him and his mother Cory, Marcos did great things although in the end he became corrupt.
During his regime, we gained respect from other countries, became second in the richest countries in Asia, become disciplined, established structures that we will benefit in the near future like the nuclear power plant and a lot more.
He is also a war veteran during the Japanese occupation so I think he also deserves to be buried in Libingan ng mga Bayani. Although he got negligence in the eyes of the people, still he deserves to be respected since he became one of our presidents before.
And besides past will be past. Every mistakes must have forgiveness.