Senator Grace Poe dismissed talk that President Noynoy Aquino is secretly supporting her candidacy.
“Talks that Aquino was secretly supporting Poe surfaced when the latter promised the President that she would not attack him in the course of the campaign. The Palace has also since dismissed this claim,” reports ABS-CBN News.
The report recalled: “Aquino and his presidential bet, Liberal Party’s Mar Roxas, courted Poe for months to become the administration’s vice-presidential bet. The invitation was widely believed to be an attempt by the ruling party to keep a unified pro-administration bet.”
Poe, speaking to reporters in Toledo City, Cebu, again brushed off the allegations that she’s actually a Palace bet as well. She stated, “Kung secret man iyon talagang secret dahil di ko naman alam iyon (If it’s a secret then it’s secret even to me because I don’t know about it).”
Poe added, though, that “even if she and Aquino are now on different sides of the political fence, they remain friends.”
