I BELIEVE it was Andres Bonifacio who in his lifetime said, “Nobody escapes history.”

As early as the onset of the current administration, President Duterte had been offering to Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro his old post as secretary of National Defense. It is of no moment that Gibo chose to stay, as one journalist puts it, “the eagle” that he was and not be among the “turkeys” surrounding the President.