Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Sunday, April 18, 2021, denied a social media post alleging that a group of retired and active military officers had threatened to withdraw support for President Rodrigo Duterte over his failure to denounce the presence of Chinese ships in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). Lorenzana described the post made by Twitter account @infopsph as “irresponsible propaganda.” “Such disinformation is an act of reckless agitation emanating from detractors,” Lorenzana said. “We call on these destabilizers to cease from propagating malicious statements especially at a time when our people should all be coming together in the face of the challenges that we are all currently facing. You are not helping our country and people at all,” he added.

Defense, AFP chiefs deny alleged military's withdrawal of support for Duterte. (2021, April 19). SunStar Bacolod, p. 2.