MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino Wednesday said he would inhibit himself from the decision on whether the late President Ferdinand Marcos could be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani in Taguig City.

The President instead said he would ask a government official "who has less personal attachment" to look into the matter recently proposed by the son of the late strongman, Senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos.

“Whatever I will say will be bias so I’m thinking of inhibiting myself from deciding the matter,” the President told reporters after meeting senior military officials in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City.

"Anything I say on the matter, people might say, was decided on a subjective basis rather than on an objective basis and we would want to spare our country from that,” said the President, son of the freedom heroes the late Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. and President Corazon Aquino.

Aquino said he was expected to meet on Monday afternoon the government official who would "study the implications" of the proposed burial of Marcos at the heroes' cemetery. He did not identify the official involved.

Also, an organization of former political prisoners, many of them victims during Martial Law, today vehemently opposed the proposal of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile for former President Ferdinand Marcos to be buried in the Libingan ng mga Bayani, calling it an “affront to the Filipino people and the thousands of victims of the Marcoses.” (with report from Marvyn Benaning)