Incoming Chief Presidential Legal Counsel and former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile has contracted COVID-19 and has been hospitalized for three days.
In a Facebook post, Enrile assures his critics and followers that he is not yet going to die yet. The 98 year-old politician also said that he is experiencing “dry intermittent, sometimes intense, coughing” and noted that his vital signs were all “normal”.
“To all my FB friends, critics, and enemies: Please bear with me. I am in the hospital. To my critics and enemies: Do not clap with glee. I am not going to die yet. Far from it,”Enrile said in a Facebook post.
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Enrile also requested the Marcos camp that he will not be attending the inauguration of the late dictator’s son because he will still ne hospitalized by that time.
“God gave me very good doctors. He want[s] me, I humbly think, to stay here for sometime more to engage you to help clear and clean up, if possible, your distorted narrative of our history for the benefit of the uninformed innocent people,” he added.
Enrile’s daughter also wished her father well and praying for his quick recovery.
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“God be with you Dad. You have much to do for this country. I am praying for your complete recovery and for length of days. Yes Dad, you have many critics that want to see you gone and dead but not just yet,” Katrina Ponce-Enrile said in a comment.
“Forgive them anyway. Maybe they are scared to hear the truth. We have often been defiled and branded as the ‘evil’ ones but I pray one day, history will be made right. I know many will still believe what they want as they have been misled and brainwashed, but, at the same breath, let us keep on correcting what was so twisted in the annals of history,” she added.
