BY CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews
MARAWI CITY – It was his first visit to the province of Lanao del Sur in his nearly three-year old administration and he was supposed to have campaigned for his “Team PNoy” – the Liberal Party candidates for the Senate, the province and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) – but the message he wanted to deliver could hardly be understood due to technical problems.
Inside the jampacked Provincial Capitol Gym here on Monday noon, President Benigno Simeon Aquino III addressed a sea of yellow – supporters in mostly yellow shirts, yellow kumbongs (veils), yellow caps and yellow campaign fans – in a 31-minute speech parts of which were in Maranao. But there must have been something wrong with the sound system at the podium from where he spoke or the President was too far away from the two microphones.
“Naririnig ko siya pero di ko maintindihan,” (I can hear him but I cannot understand), a supporter seated midway from the stage and the last row, said.
