{"id":53317,"date":"2015-06-26T12:33:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T04:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=53317"},"modified":"2015-06-26T12:35:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T04:35:06","slug":"aquino-on-binay-the-people-know-who-is-telling-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/26\/aquino-on-binay-the-people-know-who-is-telling-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquino on Binay: The people know who is telling the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"President<\/a>
President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III (middle) with his Cabinet members
(Photo from Aquino’s official Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013 President Benigno \u201cNoynoy\u201d Aquino III remained unperturbed by Vice President Jejomar \u201cJojo\u201d Binay\u2019s attacks on him and his administration as he believed that the Filipino people knew who was telling the truth.<\/p>\n

Aquino disclosed that he would rather focus on fulfilling his duties and continuing his reforms than waste time distressing on Binay\u2019s opposition.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy interest is to maximize all the opportunities for our people, to run this country\u2026 I have a responsibility to make this society, this country better. I will not allow myself to be distracted by talks of politics when I think it is very clear to the people who is telling the truth, and who is lying,\u201d he told reporters at the sidelines of a conference.<\/p>\n

With Binay quoting Aquino\u2019s mother former president Corazon Aquino\u2019s rallying call, \u2018tama na, sobra na\u2019 in his television address to the Malaca\u00f1ang, Aquino asserted that Binay cannot compare his administration to that of late president Ferdinand Marcos\u2019 dictatorship.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe you would ask, how do I feel? It\u2019s a given to every Filipino, you put yourselves in my position\u2026 The people felt the litany of wrongdoing of the dictatorship, all of them were the fault of the dictatorship\u2026 I did not treat him (Binay) wrong and this is what he repays me with? So, I say to him, \u2018Thank you,\u201d Aquino said in separate statements.<\/p>\n

Binay recently quit as the chief of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council and the presidential adviser on OFW Affairs. Aquino was only surprised with Binay\u2019s sudden resignation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a bit surprised why there was a resignation at this time. So I called him up and eventually we got to talk and I asked him specifically what the reason was. I think the word I used was \u2018casus belli\u2019. What was the immediate reason that prompted him to do this action?\u201d Aquino recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said there were many and that he would write them down and send them to me. When our conversation ended, I told him, \u2018Okay, I will wait for it\u2019\u2026 Yesterday, although it was not unexpected, in his statement, he mentioned that he was now the opposition,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

On Binay\u2019s television address stating his reason for detaching himself from Aquino\u2019s Cabinet, he mentioned the administration\u2019s \u2018selective justice,\u2019 criticized it for being \u2018insensitive and inefficient,\u2019 questioned the \u2018PDAF and DAP,\u2019 among other issues.<\/p>\n

To this, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima would only tell Binay to settle corruptions allegations against him first before pointing out the administration\u2019s flaws.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe should first put his own affairs in order, especially the corruption cases against him and members of his family\u2026 No administration is perfect. However, it is a fact that world perception of the Philippines has never been better in the past five years because of the President\u2019s anticorruption campaign and reforms in the bureaucracy,\u201d De Lima claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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