Senator Grace Poe inspects a Tabor assault rifle at the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) headquarters after gracing the 13th anniversary of the agency on Tuesday where she was the keynote speaker. Poe said she is working on raising the reward money for informants. (MNS photo)
MANILA (Mabuhay) – Vice President Jejomar Binay said Wednesday that he will not be part of any move to question the residency or citizenship of Senator Grace Poe before a court.
“Palagay ko ho hindi na ho kami [sasali] diyan,” Binay said when asked by reporters if he intends to bring Poe’s residency and citizenship issues before a court.
Binay added that he will not do anything that will tarnish his good relationship with the late actor Fernando Poe Jr., the senator’s father.
“Ako ho hindi ko makakalimutan ang pagsasamahan namin ni FPJ. Hindi ho ako susuong sa mga bagay-bagay na makakalimutan ko yung pagsasama namin ni FPJ. Kami sa hirap at ginhawa, magkasama kami, nung ginugusto nyang maging pangulo ng ating bansa,” he said.
Binay was FPJ’s campaign manager during the 2004 presidential elections.
Both Binay and Poe are performing well in pre-election surveys on preferred presidential candidates, with the neophyte senator closely tailing Binay.
United Nationalist Alliance interim president and Navotas Rep. Toby Tiangco earlier said that Poe is ineligible to seek higher post in the 2016 as she lacks the residency requirement.
Poe immediately denied the allegation, saying she has been in the Philippines since 2005, months after her father died in December 2004.
Binay and his camp have said that he has no hand in the issues raised by Tiangco, but Poe seemed not to believed it.
Tiangco had already apologized for causing a rift between Poe and Binay.(MNS)