“Kung ako lang, magpa-kumbaba si EJ Obiena. Huwag masyadong makinig sa mga tao around him. And si Popoy dapat will act like a father to EJ Obiena,” Ramirez said in the People Sports Conversations yesterday.

“Hindi na kailangan ng mediation. Mag-usap na lang silang dalawa,” he added noting that it will be a never ending fight if they will not be in truce.

It was the PSC’s idea for Obiena and Patafa to have a mediation between them but the pole vaulter backed out citing that Juico and Patafa are in ‘bad faith.’

With a failed mediation mission, Ramirez pleaded with Obiena and Juico to settle the issue between them and not to let Malacañang intervene.

“Huwag na nating hintayin na yung Malacañang ang mag-imbestiga sa atin. Huwag na nating hintaying na yung Congress ang mag-imbestiga. Pabayaan na lang natin na yung Accouting Office at CoA (Commission on Audit) ang magsalita. Kasi walang mananalo dito, ang bayan lang ang nasisira. Nakakahiya tayo.”

“That’s why kung nakikinig yung mga abogado ni EJ kasi mga Pilipino naman kayo, para na lang sa bayan. Ikaw EJ kung nakikinig ka, para sa bayan. At tsaka ikaw, president Popoy Juico, para sa bayan. I-treat na lang natin si EJ na parang anak.”