MANILA, Philippines — Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade may consider running for public office in the 2022 elections should President Rodrigo Duterte ask him to do so.
“That will be decided by the President,” Tugade said in response to a query during a media briefing organized by the Presidential Communications Operations Office on Wednesday.
“I am a good soldier. The President is a very good commander-in-chief,” he added. “What the President says so it will go in so far as I am concerned.”
Tugade was the former classmate of Duterte at the San Beda University’s College of Law.
He was a successful businessman and former head of the Clark Development Corp. under the Aquino adm…
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