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First, there were reports of President Aquino holding a private meeting with Sen. Chiz Escudero, Sen. Grace Poe, and DILG Secretary Mar Roxas.
Next, came Sen. Sergio Osmeña saying this and that.
And then this morning, we saw GMA Network’s report about how the President and Sen. Poe met, again, for five hours, just the two of them.
Sigh! We can’t keep up!
“In a text message to reporters, Poe sai that she felt that Aquino as in a ‘difficult position’on the choice of the administration’s standard-bearer for the 2016 elections,” reports GMA news.
She also mentioned that she understood the President and that she considers him “a true and sincere friend.”
The five-hour closed-door meeting, said Poe, was to be the last before Aquino delivers his last State of the Nation Address next Monday.
As we may or may not remember, PNoy has said that he will announce his successor after the SONA.
“We both agreed that we both have the best interest of our country in mind in whatever decisions we will make in the coming days,” Poe was quoted in the GMA report as saying.
Meanwhile, an ABS-CBN report says President Aquino endorsing Mar Roxas is pretty much a done deal. “That is what Roxas ally, Caloocan representative Edgar Erice thinks after Senator Grace Poe met with the President on Monday,” writes RG Curz on ABS-CBNnews.com.
The report continues: “Erice believes the endorsement will come after the President delivers his final State of the Nation Address next week.” A pretty consistent little detail in this whole brouhaha.
But wait, there’s more. Inquirer.net quotes Sen. Sergio Osmeña — again — as saying Sen. Grace Poe will be running for president with or without the Aquino’s blessing.
“No matter how many meetings they have, the results are going to be the same. Tatakbo si Grace Poe as an independent,” the Inquirer report quotes Osmeña as saying.
“And if Poe wold run for president, Osmeña said the President might have no other choice but to endorse Local Government Secretary Manuel ‘Mar’ Rxoas II, the presumptive candidate of the administration’s Liberal Party,” continues the report.
As we all know, Poe has been winning the surveys as for late, bumping off VP Binay in the top spot of Presidentials.
Looks like the country’s next six years will be shaped in the coming days. Here’s hoping cooler and better minds prevail.
