Breaking his silence two days after he severed ties with the Aquino government, Vice President Jejomar C. Binay yesterday immediately buckled down to work as “leader of the opposition,” blasting the “insensitive and inept” administration as he bared a supposed plot to unseat him and send him to jail ahead of the 2016 presidential elections.
Facing the media for the first time after quitting his posts in the Aquino Cabinet, Binay delivered a strongly-worded statement in Filipino, detailing why he bolted the administration he had served for the past five years.
Binay, however, never mentioned the name of President Aquino throughout the statement he read at the Coconut Palace in Pasay City yesterday.
In what he said was the beginning of the campaign against poverty, the Vice President said he resigned from the Cabinet as he could not allow that his pro-poor programs which reaped success during his time as Makati mayor would just be ruined and besmirched and will not be realized in the whole country.
"I will not allow the lack of justice in the country to continue. I will not allow that only a few are reaping benefits that should be for the good of all. And most of all, I will not allow that the public will be deprived of a chance to have a government that is honest and efficient in working to uplift the lives of the majority,” he said.
Binay, who is expected to be the standard bearer of the opposition United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), said his desire is for the country to have an efficient leadership so that all Filipinos and “not only a few” would benefit from the country’s economic gains.
Binay said he desires a government that is sensitive and compassionate to the needs of the poor, which he said is the opposite of the present “insensitive and inept” administration.
MANILA BULLETIN
