Responsibility still mine in last 100 days–Aquino

Presient Benigno Aquino lll.
INQUIRER FILE PHOTO/JOAN BONDOC

THE COUNTDOWN to the last 100 days of the Aquino administration begins today.

In a press conference Sunday, President Aquino said he would still be  “responsible for everything” until the last minute of his term, even as he instructed his Cabinet to prepare their respective “transition plans” to pave the way for the new administration.

“I wish I had the luxury to be able to say that ‘this is the only thing I’d do’ or ‘majority of the time we will spend here.’  But the job of the President is to be responsible for everything all the time—before it happens, while it’s happening, and after it happened,” said the President, who will pass on the office to the winner of the May 9 elections.

Answering a question on whether defense and security issues would be on his priority list in his last three months in office, Mr. Aquino said such issues “will be a concern” as much as the rebuilding in the aftermath of Supertyphoon Yolanda that government vowed to complete before his term ends, the effects of the ongoing El Niño weather phenomenon, and even the spread of the Zika virus.