By Prince Golez
Manila Reporter
MANILA – If you think the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) is illegal, wear black. If you are not happy with the Aquino government, wear black.
Yesterday, Augusto “Boboy” Syjuco Jr., former congressman of Iloilo’s 2nd District, urged the critics of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to wear black “to show our disappointment with (his administration).”
Filipinos who are “disappointed” and “disgusted” with Aquino should wear “black ribbons,” “black ballers,” “black ties,” “black belts,” and “black jackets,” suggested Syjuco.
The ex-Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) chief added, “Black is the color of night, and night is the time to re-energize, preceding the dawn that, enlightens brightness for the next tomorrow.”
Aquino’s call to wear yellow ribbon “divides (Filipinos) and is “very unpresidentiable,” he added.
“Mr. Aquino would like to divide us, identify his followers, and barricade with them against the rest of us. It’s a cross-eyed point of view, a shadow of glaring lunacy,” he stressed.
The other day, Presidential Communications Operations Office secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. asked the public to “not (take the challenge) too seriously.”
He said it was “just a light moment in the entire dialogue” and not a competition of political colors.
Syjuco, an ally of now detained former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, is strongly against the DAP and the Priority Development Assistance Fund.
The former Ilonggo solon also filed an impeachment complaint against Aquino.
The President, in his 2013 State of the Nation Address, accused Syjuco of authorizing the purchase of TESDA equipment./PN
