Leni Robredo: Noy sounded like Jesse in SONA

MANILA, Philippines — Camarines Sur Rep. Maria Leonor "Leni" Robredo and her daughters shivered while listening to President Aquino as he delivered his State of the Nation Address on Monday.

In an Instagram post, Robredo admitted that the latter part of Aquino's address reminded them of her husband, the late Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo.

The solon said that her daughter, Patricia, was not able to join the family to watch Aquino's SONA, but instead watched the late replay on television.

"Here she is, at midnight, watching the replay of the President's speech on TV and crying her heart out," Robredo said, posting a photo of the teary-eyed young lady on Tuesday.

"The President said a lot of things toward the end of his speech that sounded a lot like it was Jesse speaking. My girls and I are all in agreement kaya nakakapangilabot," Robredo said.

Screenshot of an Instagram post by Robredo showing her daughter, Patricia, in tears while watching a replay of the State of the Nation Address on Monday night.

A former member of Aquino's Cabinet, Jesse died in a plane crash in August 2012 off Masbate.

Aquino would remember his trustee appointee as a man who did the "impossible."

"We wish for things to be this way or that. But Jesse, he did all of those already. If you have any doubts that we can do it, he did it. Those who say that it is impossible to do, Jesse did it," the President said in a speech commemorating Jesse's first death anniversary in 2013.

Presidential Communication and Operations Secretary Herminio Coloma said after the SONA that he and other Malacañang officials noticed Aquino's departure from his prepared speech toward the end of the SONA.