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MAGUINDANAO LADY GOVERNOR --- Election officials
proclaim Bai Mariam Sangki-Mangudadatu
(4th from left) as governor-elect of Maguindanao last May 16 at Shariff
Kabunsuan Complex in Cotabato City together with the province’s
Congressman-elect Datu Ronne Sinsuat (3rd from left), Vice Governor-elect Datu
Lester Sinsuat, and several elected Board members of the province.
Sangki-Mangudadatu is the first-ever lady governor of the 46-year-old province.
(PHOTO COURTESY OF ELLA DAYAWAN – BANDERA
RADIO COTABATO – MINDANAO EXPOSE’)
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Sangki-Mangudadatu
made history as the first-ever lady governor of the 46-year-old province after
winning over his closest rival, Freddie Mangudadatu, by more than 54,000 votes
in the province’s 36 municipalities during the May 13 mid-term polls.
“From
now on, the welfare of the people of Maguindanao always comes first before
anything else,” she said when interviewed by reporters here following her
proclamation.
The
lady governor-elect is the wife of Governor-elect Suharto Mangudadatu of Sultan
Kudarat province, who is the cousin of Freddie Mangudadatu, the outgoing mayor
of Mangudadatu town in Maguindanao.
The
COMELEC’s Provincial Board of Canvassers (PBOC), which held the 4 p.m.
proclamation at the Shariff Kabunsuan Complex, the seat of the Bangsamoro
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao here, said Sangki-Mangudadatu garnered a
total of 256,338 votes to clinch the gubernatorial post as against Freddie’s
201,565 votes.
Also
proclaimed were Datu Lester Sinsuat as vice governor-elect of Maguindanao and
Datu Ronnie Sinsuat as Congressman-elect of the province’s first district. Hours
earlier on the same day, the PBOC correspondingly proclaimed outgoing
Maguindanao Governor Esmael Mangudadatu as the Congressman-elect of the
province’s second district together with his son, King Jazer, as Board member
for the same provincial district. (NOEL
PUNZALAN, PNA – COTABATO / MINDANAO EXPOSE’)
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