{"id":151638,"date":"2018-02-07T19:56:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T00:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=151638"},"modified":"2018-02-07T19:56:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T00:56:33","slug":"sap-bong-go-no-plans-to-run-for-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/07\/sap-bong-go-no-plans-to-run-for-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP Bong Go: No plans to run for senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_146900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146900\" style=\"width: 695px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bong-GO.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-146900\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bong-GO.png\" alt=\"FILE: Bong Go (Photo: Christopher Bong GO\/Facebook)\" width=\"695\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bong-GO.png 695w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bong-GO-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Bong Go (Photo: Christopher Bong GO\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 Special Assistant to President Christopher \u2018Bong\u2019 Go clarified on Monday that he has no plans to run for senator.<\/p>\n<p>Go made this clarification after President Rodrigo Roa Duterte mentioned in jest during his speech at 116th anniversary of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) that the Senate inquiry into PHP15.5 billion frigate acquisition could be Go\u2019s ticket to a Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to publicly state that I am not interested in running for a Senate seat,\u201d Go said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPRRD only mentioned it in jest in view of my demand to the Senate to conduct a full blown public hearing and get to the bottom of the Frigate controversy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Go said he had already dedicated his life in serving President Duterte.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am committed to stand beside him \u2018til kingdom come,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The closest aide of the President has been dragged into the controversy after he reportedly intervened in the selection of supplier of combat management system for two Philippine Navy frigates.<\/p>\n<p>Go had denied the media reports, saying he would step down if it would be proven that he intervened in the transaction.\u00a0<em><strong>(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 Special Assistant to President Christopher \u2018Bong\u2019 Go clarified on Monday that he has no plans to run for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":146900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[4999,43768],"class_list":["post-151638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-senator","tag-special-assistant-to-president-christopher-bong-go","mauthors-jelly-musico","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}