{"id":167007,"date":"2018-06-14T21:58:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T01:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=167007"},"modified":"2018-06-14T21:58:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T01:58:22","slug":"my-loyalty-is-to-president-duterte-filipinos-sap-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/14\/my-loyalty-is-to-president-duterte-filipinos-sap-go\/","title":{"rendered":"My loyalty is to President Duterte, Filipinos: SAP Go"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cMy loyalty is to the nation and to President Duterte, you know that. I\u2019m ready to die for Duterte. I don\u2019t care what other people will say. I will not allow anybody to use me,\u201d Go said. (Photo: Christopher Bong Go\/Facebook)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Special Assistant to the President (SAP) Bong Go on Wednesday clarified that his loyalty is to President Rodrigo Duterte and to the Filipino people.<\/p>\n

Go made this clarification after he and President Rodrigo Duterte apologized last week to Kris Aquino for an incident that prompted her to publicly castigate Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson for disrespecting her father, the late former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersonally, I\u2019m not allowing myself to be used by \u2018Dilawan\u2019 (yellow),\u201d Go said in a Facebook live interview with blogger Maharlika.<\/p>\n

Go was referring to the previously ruling Liberal Party headed by Kris Aquino\u2019s brother, former President Benigno \u2018Noynoy\u2019 Aquino III.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy loyalty is to the nation and to President Duterte, you know that. I\u2019m ready to die for Duterte. I don\u2019t care what other people will say. I will not allow anybody to use me,\u201d Go said.<\/p>\n

He explained that it was Duterte who told him to issue an apology to Kris Aquino after Uson compared Ninoy Aquino being kissed by a woman before his assassination in 1983 to Duterte kissing a woman during a Filipino community gathering in South Korea last June 3.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe President appreciated what Mocha did (defending President Duterte) but somebody was hurt because her (Kris) father is dead already. That\u2019s why we said sorry, including me, the President and the office of Mocha,\u201d Go said.<\/p>\n

Go said Duterte also ordered him to apologize because the President wanted to end the spat between Kris Aquino and Uson.<\/p>\n

He clarified that he did not ask Uson to issue an apology to Aquino.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe just asked me on what to do. I told her it\u2019s up to her if she will follow what the President has told me,\u201d Go said.<\/p>\n

Uson eventually declined to apologize, saying: \u201cThis is not about Kris Aquino. With all due respect to everyone involved, I decline to apologize for the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if he will run for senator in 2019 elections, Go said he wanted to focus first on helping the President, particularly in uplifting the lives of the Filipino people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am loyal to Duterte. I will swim and sink with the President. No politics, work first,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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