Arroyo Visits New Era University
President Arroyo thanked yesterday (February 10, 2010) the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) for continuing to support her administration. Speaking to students and faculty members of the INC-run New Era University in Quezon City, Mrs. Arroyo said the INC has backed her throughout her political career that began when she ran for senator in 1995.
“Thank you for your help that you always carried me and you also carried (Vice President) Noli (de Castro) when he first ran in 2001 as senator,” she said in Filipino.
“And in 2004, you supported our tandem.”
Mrs. Arroyo said she could not forget the joy she felt when she learned she was number one in the sample ballot of the INC in 1995.
“Because you helped me become vice president, I became president in 2001 at the receiving end of the political crisis and inherited a bankrupt treasury,” she said.
Ermita said it would not come as a surprise if the administration would ask the INC to support Teodoro’s run for the presidency.
“We should always welcome the support of any group or sector,especially during election,” he said.
“If indeed they believe in the administration’s capacity to move forward, definitely it is very significant that we win the support of such a group like INC for the candidacy of the administration,” he said.
“It would be a correct guess that a candidate such as former secretary Teodoro would definitely reach out to the INC.”
Mrs. Arroyo was at New Era University with De Castro to give a talk on her administration’s accomplishments on the Urban Luzon Beltway, one of five “super regions” created by Executive Order 561 covering CALABARZON, Marinduque and Mindoro provinces, Metro Manila, and Central Luzon.
Source: Philippine Star
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It’s very nice that such an important person would make time to visit a university. In the United States the only time an important person will visit a university is to give a speech during a graduation ceremony, and then only if it is a school that either they themselves attended, or one of their offsprings attend.
Or to give a condolence speech after a specific tragic event. Like when some U.S. college students died in the earthquake in Haitiei or more recently when the professor flipped out at a staff meeting and shot 11 other teachers and students.