DEFENSE Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief Gen. Eduardo Año are ready to face the Supreme Court in oral arguments on the petitions to nullify President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of martial law in Mindanao, the military spokesman said on Wednesday.

Lorenzana is the administrator and Año the implementor of martial law in Mindanao, which the President declared on May 23 after hostilities broke out between government forces and extremist gunmen in Marawi City.

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