I will not set my alarm clock for just one particular group or person. I will have to be with everybody.

This was stressed on Saturday by President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III in response to the unsolicited advice of former President Fidel Ramos on what the incoming president should do to make positive marks within his first 100 days.

Aquino pointed out that “there is no bad blood between him and Ramos.”

“It’s not that I have anything against him, that’s not the point. I have so many things to do, I have very little time to do it now and in the future, and I want to lessen the backlog of things I have set for myself,” Aquino explained to newsmen during a press briefing at his Times Street residence in Quezon City.

Earlier, Ramos pointed out that the most immediate duty of a “minority President is to campaign once more, this time to win a nationwide mandate as the elected leader of all Filipinos – regardless of political party, regional origin, religious faith, or socio-economic status.”

“For Noynoy Aquino to gain popular support for his programs, particularly deep reforms, he has to hit the road again to win new friends and persuade non-believers,” Ramos said.

Ramos said there are several valuable tools that worked wonders in 1992-1998, but which, according to him, were shoved into “inutility” during the Estrada and Arroyo eras – “perhaps because of the proliferation of their Palace advisers and cronies, and their abhorrence of unsolicited advice.”

They are the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC), which he put in place when he took office in 1992, and the National Unification Commission (NUC) which was created through Proclamation 10-A with the late Atty. Haydee Yorac and Archbishop Fernando Capalla as chair and vice-Chair, respectively.