Benigno

By Angie M. Rosales
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02/13/2010

Tit for tat, by way of charges and countercharges between two presidential bets.

With the Liberal Party (LP) standard-bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino accused by the Nacionalista Party (NP) of having benefited from the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway, along with his late mother exempting the family’s hacienda from land reform, as well as his family’s refusal to give Hacienda Luisita workers their share of the land and share of the profits, the LP yesterday dropped a bombshell against NP presidential bet Sen. Manuel “Manny” Villar as being involved in yet another land and road scam, this time not in Metro Manila but in Iloilo province.

Noynoy tsunami

It’s a Noynoy tsunami.

If elections were held today, in a five-cornered presidential contest, Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino, fight will win hands down with 50 per cent of the votes, according to a survey conducted by the Social Weather Station last Sept. 5 and 6 in the vote-rich region of the National Capital Region, Pangasinan, Central Luzon and the Calabarzon.

The survey, done after Sen. Mar Roxas withdrew from the presidential race and before Aquino declared his presidential bid showed Aquino getting 50 percent of the votes followed by Sen. Manuel Villar with 14 per cent, former President Estrada with 13 per cent, Sen. Francis Escudero with 12 per cent and Vice President Noli de Castro with 7 per cent.

Aquino’s son best bet for Philippine presidency: Analysts

MANILA: The hundreds of thousands of people who poured out on Manila’s streets last week for the funeral of former Philippine president Corazon Aquino signal a huge vote bank for her son, should he run for the presidency.