SECTION 12 of Article 7 of the 1987 Constitution cannot be any clearer: “In case of serious illness of the president, the public shall be informed of the state of his health.”

However, there is a caveat here, a gaping hole that our constitutional framers either did not foresee, or they had the foresight to craft it in such a way that it provides an ailing but devious president a way out to continue to deceive citizens. If the intent of the framers was to make the state of the health of the president an issue of public interest, then Section 12 is a poorly worded version of that mandate.