DAVAO City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte last Saturday night assured the Filipino people that, if it is God’s will that he becomes president of the Philippines, he will “humbly obey.”
Speaking before the Kingdom of Jesus Christ religious group, which gathered in Davao City on April 25 to celebrate the 64th birthday of its leader, Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy, Duterte said he believed that the presidency is a mission from God.
“I have never coveted the presidency, even up to this day. But people are saying I should run for the presidency. That is not for me to decide. It is something which comes from God,” he said.
Quiboloy, who had been a friend of Duterte since the day he put up a small chapel near the Davao City Airport to start his religious congregation King of Jesus Christ, which now has more than six million members worldwide, exhorted Duterte during his address to “listen to the voice of the people.”
“You cannot turn your back on the people. You have to remember that the voice of the people is the voice of God,” Quiboloy told Duterte.
Duterte, who, last year, flatly rejected the idea of even considering the presidency, is ranked third in recent surveys, which asked people whom they preferred to become the next president of the Philippines.
His third-place ranking came as a big surprise to political observers, especially because Duterte has continuously denied any intention to run for the presidency.
The 70-year-old Davao City mayor is credited for transforming the former “Killing Fields” in the Philippines, where Communist assassins terrorized the community with almost unabated killings, to being one of the “safest cities in the world to live in.”
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then go for it!….beat Binay!