Enrile in 1986 declared break from Marcos, Enrile in 2018 claims it was opposition to junta

The events that led to the EDSA Revolution in 1986 was triggered by Juan Ponce Enrile's plan to go against a junta that was, as he claimed, planning to take over the government when then dictator Ferdinand Marcos died.

On the second episode of his tête-à-tête with Bongbong Marcos posted on Saturday, Enrile said that he had been targeted by a group of military officers who wanted to take over the government.

"So the uprising of what became EDSA was not a break with my father?" Bongbong asked in the video.

"Correct," Enrile said.

"But it just happened that on the day we went to Aguinaldo, we were already going to be arrested by the by the presidential guards," he added.

"I received an information that there was a military junta and that I was supposed to be executed by that junta if something happens to the President," Enrile said.

GMA News file video of Enrile's press conference in 1986 showed a much younger Enrile, much more defiant of Marcos.

"For myself if I may say this I believe that the mandate of the people does not belong to the present regime," Enrile said referring to Marcos' administration.

"And I know it for a fact that there have been some anomalies committed during the elections," he added.

"And I searched in conscience and I felt that i cannot serve a government expressive of the sovereign will," Enrile said.

When asked in the video with Bongbong why he would be on the said group's "kill list", Enrile said: "Probably because I was a hindrance to their political objective."

Although Enrile did not mention any of the supposed members of this junta, he mentioned their high-ranking positions.

"You will be surprised. The chief of staff, the general of the Philippine Army, the head of the Philippine Air Force, the head of the Philippine Navy, the head of the Philippine Coast Guard -- those were the members of the Junta," he said.

Enrile even explained how the "junta" was going to fulfill their plan.

"According to the information I received, if your father died, they were not supposed to announce it at all. They will keep it away from the knowledge of the public," he said.

"They will invite all the members of the cabinet in the name of your father for a Cabinet meeting and once we are in the Palace, we will be quarantined. But in my case, I will have to be executed," he added.

In the 23-minute pilot episode of the interview series entitled "Enrile: A Witness to History," posted a day before the 46th commemoration of the Martial law declaration, Enrile denied that anybody was executed during the regime.

The 94-year-old had been called a liar by critics who disputed the claim while others described it as a pathetic attempt to rewrite history. — Margaret Claire Layug/DVM/ NB, GMA News