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Enrile turns 99, thanks God for another year

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Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Chief Legal Counsel and former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile returns to the Senate as a resource person of the Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Revision of Codes during the resumption of the hybrid public hearing on legislative measures calling for a review of the provisions of the 1987 Constitution Wednesday, September 21, 2022. " src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/life/02/14/20220921-senate-constitutional-amendments-enrile-sprib0419.jpg"/><figcaption>Chief Legal Counsel and former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile returns to the Senate as a resource person of the Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Revision of Codes during the resumption of the hybrid public hearing on legislative measures calling for a review of the provisions of the 1987 Constitution Wednesday, September 21, 2022. </figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA — Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile turned 99 years old on Tuesday and thanked God for giving him those years.</p><p>&quot;Happy Valentine&#x27;s day to all of you. I love you all. 99 years are, indeed, long in term of years, and I thank God for granting me those years,&quot; he wrote on Facebook.</p><p>&quot;But in terms of eternity, those seemingly long years are but a fleeting moment,&quot; added the official who, in 1986, helped topple the dictatorship of the late President Ferdinand Marcos, Sr., father and namesake of the incumbent Philippine leader.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/09/13/22/marcos-jr-enrile-has-no-reason-to-betray-me">&#x27;Enrile has no reason to betray me&#x27;: Marcos Jr. on his presidential legal counsel</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/06/17/22/marcos-picks-enrile-as-presidential-legal-counsel">Marcos picks Enrile as Presidential Legal Counsel</a></li></ul><p>Enrile also thanked God for protection and the blessings he and his family received.</p><p>&quot;Thank you Lord for the years you gifted me; for the protection you blessed me; and for all the blessings you have generously given to me and to my family; and the friends you, Lord, allowed me to have during my lifetime. Thank you dear God for this day!&quot; he said.</p><p>The former Defense secretary and Senate president is currently facing plunder and graft charges at the Sandiganbayan in connection with the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) scam.</p><p>Among those who greeted Enrile on his birthday was former Sen. Ping Lacson. </p><p>&quot;When you are 99 and celebrating Valentine’s Day with an evening party, then you must really be JPE. Happy birthday sir!,&quot; Lacson <a href="https://twitter.com/iampinglacson/status/1625272837580926976">said on Twitter</a>. </p><p>Enrile is also known as the architect and implementer of martial law, a period that saw thousands of human rights abuses against activists and critics of the Marcos Sr. administration.</p><p>In February 1986, he was among those who led a military mutiny that resulted in the EDSA People Power revolution, ousting Marcos Sr. and installing Corazon Aquino into the presidency. </p><p>Enrile then served as Aquino&#x27;s defense chief. But she fired him in November 1986 after a failed coup by his followers, his involvement in which he denied. </p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2245725" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

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Enrile turns 99, thanks God for another year

Job Manahan,

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Published Feb 14, 2023 06:34 PM PHT

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Updated Feb 14, 2023 07:34 PM PHT

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