Written by : People’s Journal
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FORMER Tarlac Rep. Jose “Peping” Cojuangco yesterday blasted his critics for naming him as the leader of a group fighting President Benigno Aquino.
Cojuangco also lashed out at the Liberal Party headed by Mar Roxas for blaming him for their loss in the May 2010 elections.
He deplored reports that he is talking with former President Gloria Arroyo or strengthening his group LABAN to fight Aquino.
“I did not sponsor anyone for any high ranking position in the new administration. But instead of being hailed for not meddling in the frenzy of new appointments, I was characterized as being ‘outside the loop’, toxic, and persona non grata. Ironically, it has been the losing Liberal Party candidates who have feverishly inserted themselves at the feasting trough, cleverly guiling the winning President into balatos and consuelo de bobos, unmindful of their wholesale rejection by the electorate,” he said in a statement.
“The innuendoes have become shrill enough to openly announce that I resent being ignored by the core groups of President Aquino. That I am being coldly treated by the Presidential sisters. That the President and his sisters distance themselves from me in political matters, especially in appointments to the government. One miserably misleading report even floated the unthinkable ‘prospect’ of my meeting with Gloria for a proposed coalition,” he added.
He complained that people are quick to accuse him and his family of nepotism unlike the Abads in Aquino’s government.
“We have an Abad as the secretary of the DBM, an Abad as Secretary to the PMS, an Abad as Vice Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, and an Abad as chief of staff of the Secretary of Finance. The Abad nepotism has so metastasized through the body of this administration that they have even managed to be included in the plunder charges recently filed against Gloria and her known galamays. These Abads have quickly snatched the label of ‘KamagAnak Inc’ for their own families’ use – shamelessly, insensitively,and defiantly. Apparently, the dictates against the appearances of nepotism only apply to my family members,” he lamented.
Cojuangco said he has no rift with the President “in spite of the accurate statements in the press that none of our followers who worked endlessly for his election have been rewarded with choice government positions.”
“I have never been involved in any way with any opposition force against my nephew. But I will always be in fierce and unyielding opposition to any and all self-serving partisan efforts and characters who put their interests before and above those of our people,” he said.
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