Don’t hide

Seating inside his car outside the Senate building, the actor said, “Here inside this building is a senator who himself does not obey the law. For ordinary citizens like us, we can’t do anything when we have cases. When the police say we need to go to with them, we would obey.”

When Padilla learned that Senate President Vicente Sotto 3rd announced that Trillanes was under Senate custody and could not be arrested as long as the latter was inside, Padilla remarked, “Are you paying for the electricity? You’re something. We’re the ones footing the Senate’s electricity bill!”

The actor, who said he and Trillanes were classmates at Siena College, offered himself as cellmate to the senator.

He added that Trillanes should just do the right thing, which was to surrender himself to the rule of law.

“If you want, I can be your cellmate, bro, if you’re afraid to be imprisoned. Anyway, I’m used to getting jailed,” Padilla said.

In reply, Trillanes said, “Parangbata ( Like a child). It’s too petty. We’re dealing with a national problem here tapos (then) you have immature people like that.”

On Wednesday afternoon, the actor went back to the Senate premises and told the media that he was waiting for the warrant of arrest from the Makati Regional Trial Court to be served to the senator.

He taunted the senator again, saying, “Sinoang pa rang bat a? Si no ang na gt at ago at a yawl um ab as (Who’s like a child? Who’s the one hiding and does not want to come out)?”

Padilla was one of the ardent campaigners of then-candidate Fidel V. Ramos in 1992.

Ramos won the presidency and succeeded Corazon Aquino in Malacañang.

Padilla had a brush with the law in 1994 and

He served his sentence until his pardon [not absolute] in 1997 by Ramos.

It was in prison that the actor converted to Islam. Padilla became a solid supporter of then-Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte even before the start of the 2016 campaign, and shared his time for free in enticing Filipinos to vote for Duterte so change, according to him, would come to the country.

More than four months into Duterte’s term, Padilla was granted absolute pardon, restoring his

He is touted as one of the ruling PDP-Laban party’s candidates in the Senate race in the 2019 elections.