President Duterte on Senator Bong Go: “He is here to do his duty na may matanungan tayo agad.”
PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE – The Philippine President has categorically said that presidential aspirant and incumbent Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go didn’t control him.
The President made this clarification during his pre-recorded “Talk to the People” public briefing aired on late Monday night.
President Duterte started his explanation by giving the reason why Senator Go was always present in his weekly evening briefings.
According to him, Go was the chairperson of the Senate Committee on Health and Demography and it’s good that the senator was present in every “Talk to the People” public briefing.
“Si Senator Bong Go, chairperson ng …kailangan ko si Bong actually. Hindi sa lahat. Because Bong is the chairperson sa Senate Committee on Health and Demography. Health kanya eh. So mabuti na siya nandito,” President Duterte said. “But he does not control anybody, he does not control me. He is here to do his duty na may matanungan tayo agad.”
The pre-recorded public briefing then went into a noticeable jump cut.
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Former NTF-ELCAC Spokesperson Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. quit his post as undersecretary earlier that day and filed a certificate of candidacy (COC) for president in the 2022 elections through the substitution route.
Parlade then made comments about Go, saying that he didn’t like the way Go did things, including “controlling the decisions of the President”. The senator has denied this accusation.
Go substituted for PDDS’s presidential aspirant Grepor Belgica as the standard-bearer of Pederalismo ng Dugong Dakilang Samahan (PDDS) over the weekend.
President Duterte didn’t mention Parlade during that particular portion of his Monday’s public briefing.
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