Following her father’s resignation as member of the cabinet, Makati City Representative Abigail Binay opened up the reason why Vice President Jejomar Binay quit.
The representative handed in her father’s letter of “irrevocable” resignation to Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr on Monday saying it was just a matter of time that her father would resign as overseer of the administration’s program on overseas Filipino workers and housing.
Binay’s daughter said her father was already fed up being a punching bag of Aquino’s allies.
However, Senate President Franklin Drilon said Binay’s resignation meant he could now take the role of opposition leader.
While, Abigail Binay clarified that her father’s letter to Aquino was one sentence long with no reason or personal affection.
“He resigned on his own, he was not pressured. I don’t think there was anybody who could change my father’s mind,” she said in a radio interview.
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The daughter Binay became mum about her father’s resignation but said her father had been “holding back” from the beatings he had been getting from his colleagues.
“I am not in the right position [to answer that] but he seems to be very tired; and in his view, this is the only way he can be liberated.”
She further hinted that VP Binay was “fed up” with the “fakery or pretension” in the Cabinet.
The congresswoman, meanwhile, made clear that there are no bad feelings between the Binay family and the Aquino family.
“It was tiring for him to be getting all the punches without punching back. He was tired of being treated as a punching bag and not being able to fight back. Now, he feels liberated,” she just said.
Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV welcomed Binay’s resignation as a “very posiitbe political development.”
“Now, there is no more inconsistency in the ‘tuwid na daan’ slogan of the P-Noy administration. More importantly, it can now go all-out against Vice President Binay.”
H/T: Inquirer.net