MALAYBALAY CITY, Bukidnon — The camp of Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte scoffed at President Benigno Aquino III’s recent verbal offensive against the candidate from Mindanao.
Jun Evasco, the national campaign manager of Duterte, said Aquino’s recent comments showed that the administration is now “in panic mode as its bet, Mar Roxas, continues to suffer from one blunder to another.”
“The barrage of criticism generated by the ridiculous characterization of Roxas as a typhoon Yolanda hero was just too much for Aquino to handle,” Evasco said. “Frightened, the President wants to deflect the attention of the public away from the shame.”
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Evasco said President Aquino and his anointed successor Roxas are very much alike–unable to handle stress well.
In a campaign rally for Presidential candidate Mar Roxas in Sta. Rosa, Laguna, Aquino criticized Duterte for saying he would resign from the presidency if he is not able to eradicate crime in three to six months.
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But Duterte’s spokesperson Peter Laviña said the mayor has always maintained that his self-imposed deadline is not a cop-out or an easy way out but rather “a guarantee that something will be done about crime.”
“Every time he makes that promise, he explains that it is a self-imposed deadline and a guarantee that he will start working against crime on day one of his administration,” Laviña said.
Duterte has earlier said the three- to-six-month deadline is a “self-imposed deadline and a guarantee that something is already being done on day one of my administration.”
“If I cannot solve the problem in three to six months, then not even ten years will be enough,” Laviña also said in his sorties, Duterte lays down a specific plan of action: he will order the police and the military to hunt down criminals and drug lords.
“If they offer any resistance to arrest, the order is to kill them so as to protect innocent civilians,” Laviña said. And unlike the present administration, a Duterte administration will not sit on its promises, he added. CDG
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