Aquino’s exit plan and the plot against Binay

President B. S. Aquino 3rd is all but psychologically defeated. He can not hold on to the presidency much longer, but he does not want to go to jail for the 44 Philippine National Police-Special Action Force commandos who perished at the January 25 Mamasapano, Maguindanao massacre, and other unpunished crimes. So he needs an exit plan. This includes, among other things, the destruction of Vice President Jejomar C. Binay.

Sometime last year, Aquino’s favorite uncle-in-law Len Oreta, the businessman-husband of Ninoy Aquino’s younger sister and former senator Tessie Aquino Oreta, was reported to have approached Sultan Ibrahim Ismael of Johor to arrange for PNoy’s possible asylum in that southern Islamic state of peninsular Malaysia. Aquino and the Sultan, who is a couple of years older, are said to be second-generation friends, their late fathers having been friends in their time. They share some common interests, like guns, motorcycles and fast cars, and how to handle Muslim Mindanao and the Philippine Sabah claim.