PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Wednesday said he has nothing to do with the ouster of Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri as Senate President.
Marcos said the voting was made only by Zubiri’s colleagues although he admitted that he was approached by now Senate President Chiz Escudero about his plan to take over the Senate leadership.
“It was made by the senators,” Marcos said.
This as Zubiri alluded to outside forces behind his ouster as leader of the Senate, saying he lost his post for supposedly failing to “follow instructions from the powers that be.”
Reacting to such, Marcos said he was not sure what Zubiri was referring to.
“I guess if you’re Senate President, the only power that be is the President. So, I’m not sure what he is referring to. If that is a specific instance or just as a general principle, I don’t know. I haven’t spoken to him about it,” Marcos said.
Marcos admitted that Escudero informed him of his plan to take over the Senate leadership.
But he said he did not speak to any parties at endpoint because he was out of town, adding that he received the news that Escudero had assumed the Senate leadership when he returned to Manila from an out-of-town trip.
“So, that’s the extent. That‘s how I was basically informed at every step of the way but it moves so quickly as well,” Marcos said.
“But of course, we knew the state of the voting. When that was still being collected, the votes were still being collected by Senator Chiz,” he said.
