Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Thursday mourned the passing of former President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III.
Locsin took to Twitter to express his grief over Aquino’s death whom he described incorruptible.
“I’m out of Twitter from grief over the death of a sea-green incorruptible, brave under armed attack, wounded in crossfire, indifferent to power and its trappings, and ruled our country with a puzzling coldness but only because he hid his feelings so well it was thought he had none, ” Locsin wrote.
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Locsin also extended his condolences to the Aquino family.
“I beg his sisters to allow me the honor to share their grief,” the foreign affairs secretary said.
“He wasn’t fond of me but I could not bring myself not to admire him,” he added.
Locsin also praised Noynoy Aquino’s mother, former President Corazon Aquino.
“It was the way he and his siblings were raised by a great woman—their mother and of our restored democracy (without her none in power yesterday and today would be) She created the democratic space that made it possible. She believed that one must never let oneself go no matter the occasion or provocation; showing feelings was vulgar which I too believe but am guilty of. It is a hard ethic. Blood always shows,” Locsin said.
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Noynoy Aquino died on Thursday, just five years after his term as President in 2016.
Prior to being president Aquino served as congressman of Tarlac for three consecutive terms from 1998 to 2007.
In 2007, he was elected as senator for six years before he ran as President in 2010.
Aquino was rushed to the Capitol Medical Center in Quezon City on the morning of June 24, 2021. The former president had been undergoing dialysis for the past five months and had undergone a heart operation recently. (RA)
