Even after four-plus years, the obstinacy of President Benigno Aquino 3rd is still astonishing.

Despite firm calls by numerous economic analysts and no fewer than eight major business groups in the country, President Aquino has stubbornly clung to his uninformed opinion that the best way to handle the controversy surrounding the bidding for the P35.4 billion Cavite-Laguna Expressway (Calax) project would be to go back to square one and hold the bidding again.

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