Newly proclaimed President Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Aquino III announced on Wednesday that he will be taking his oath of office before Supreme Court Associate Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales on June 30.

Aquino reiterated his position against taking his oath before Chief Justice Renato Corona, whom he considers as a midnight appointee of outgoing President Arroyo.

He chose Morales to administer his oath for being the lone dissenter to the SC ruling that allowed Arroyo to appoint the next Chief Justice.

As part of his promise not to be restricted by tradition, the president-elect said he prefers his oath-taking rites at the Quezon City Memorial Circle and to reside outside Malacañang while in office.

Aquino, however, said his official residence as President has not yet been finalized.

He said he was “anxious and eager” to start solving the Republic's problems.

In fact, his first marching order to the incoming Cabinet officials that he will name "very soon," is to launch an inventory of the general and specific problems of the nation.

"The first order of the day would be to know the state of the nation. We have to make an inventory of the problems that we will be inheriting from the outgoing administration because wrong identification of the problem leads to wrong solution," Aquino said during his first press conference as president-elect.

Aside from meticulously reviewing the state's problems, Aquino said he will also direct an inventory of the vacated government posts and the midnight appointments made by Mrs. Arroyo.

"We will first determine how many posts that need to be filled up. We will review and screen them as far as possible and try to get the best people to fill in these positions," he said.

But if Arroyo's appointees refuse to abide by the new administration's bidding, Aquino said he will not hesitate to dismiss them from public office.

"The President's power to appoint carries with it the power to dismiss. So after my supposed alter-egos do not conform with our agenda, there is no basis for our relationship to continue," he said.

Meanwhile, vice president-elect and outgoing Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay Sr. said he expects to be “working and active vice president” and not a “spare tire."

Hours before leaving his house for his proclamation, Binay said he would like to be a secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) where he could be of big help to the Aquino administration because of his long exposure as local chief executive of Makati.

“The vice president must be a working, active vice president… it is so surprising that the vice president is really just considered as a spare tire,” said Binay.

However if the new President Aquino declined to give him the post and offered another, he would first study if he could be effective in the post.

“If I am offered another post, I have yet to study it first. I hope that I would be offered a post where I am experienced,” he said.