Posted at Dec 04 2016 07:34 PM | Updated as of Dec 04 2016 07:47 PM

President Duterte meets with Vice President Robredo. File/VP Leni Robredo Media Bureau

MANILA — Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco Jr. confirmed Sunday that President Rodrigo Duterte ordered Vice President Leni Robredo to desist from attending Cabinet meetings due to “irreconcilable differences.”

“Utos ‘yan ni Pangulong Duterte, and the reason is there are irreconcilable differences between VP Robredo and the administration,” Evasco said in a phone interview on dzMM.

Robredo on Sunday announced that she will tender her resignation as Housing secretary on Monday, noting “major differences in principles and values.”

She said she received a text message on Saturday from Evasco, relaying the President’s instruction through his executive assistant Bong Go for her “to desist from attending all Cabinet meetings” starting December 5.