BAM AQUINO GUSTO MAGING PRESIDENTE SA 2022
What he fails to point out is the fact that if he did not have the Aquino name, would he be running for the Senate, if his cousin Noynoy was not the incumbent president? Would he even have been included in the LP Senate slate if he was not Noynoy’s cousin? And would he, without that name today, even make it to the Senate?
This is really what can be called as taking advantage of the current situation. Bam Aquino was an unknown factor before Noynoy became president. As a matter of fact, Noynoy would never have made it to the presidency if his mother, Cory Aquino, did not die at the time she did — just eight months or so prior to the 2010 presidential elections.
Admit it or not, Noynoy took advantage of his mother’s death and rode to Malacañang on the yellow-generated wave of sympathy for Cory, in much the same way Bam Aquino is today taking advantage of his cousin’s powerful position and Noynoy gives his blessings.
The truth of the matter is that even as Noynoy and the LPs claim that Noynoy had been cheated of his votes in Mindanao in the 2007 senatorial elections, with one witness claiming that Gloria Arroyo, then sitting in Malacañang, said she wanted to ensure that Noynoy would not have the votes in Maguindanao. But Noynoy, in 2007, was not even a popular senatorial bet, and frankly, he wouldn’t have made it to the Senate if he did not run under former President Joseph Estrada’s opposition ticket.
He was, in fact, not even included in the original Estrada slate. The only reason he was in was due to Cory who had pleaded with Estrada to include her son in the opposition slate.
Bam Aquino has been cashing in on the Aquino name at this time when his cousin sits in Malacañang, and he also takes pain to make himself look like Ninoy Aquino.
This is what should be made illegal by Congress, if the body ever gets to enact and pass a law banning political dynasties, because this is what really is disadvantageous.
As Sen. Serge Osmeña pointed out in the hearing on this issue, an Aquino should be disqualified from running in an elective position because his cousin Noynoy is the president of the Philippines, and as such wields a lot of power and influence.
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