PNoy ally quits over Mamasapano ‘cover-up’

The political firestorm over the January 25 Mamasapano incident continues for President Benigno Aquino 3rd after a key congressional ally quit his post as he accused the country’s leader of engaging in a “brazen cover-up of his role” in the botched police operation.

Walden Bello, a political activist since the martial law period and a professor of sociology and public administration before he joined Congress as second nominee of the Akbayan party-list, was supposed to formally announce his resignation in a privileged speech Wednesday afternoon but the session was adjourned for lack of quorum.