COTABATO CITY – The United Bangsamoro Justice Party (UBJP) on Sunday, September 26, proclaimed its candidates for different elective posts in the province of Maguindanao for the forthcoming May 9, 2022, national and local elections.
This was announced in a statement by lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo, the deputy secretary-general of the UBJP.
Sinarimbo said the candidates were proclaimed by UBJP President Ahod Balawag Ebrahim, who is also the chief minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Mindanao (BARMM). Ebrahim named Maguindanao Second District Representative Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu as a candidate for governor; former Representative Bai Sandra Sema, vice governor; re-electionist First District Representative Datu Roonie Q. Sinsuat, and Datu Jamael Sinsuat as mayoralty candidate in the town of Datu Odin Sinsuat.
Sinarimbo, the current interior and local government minister of the BARMM, said these officials have shown their consistent support both during the enactment of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) and in the push for the extension of the Bangsamoro transition period.
“The Party pledged to mobilize all its resources and strength to ensure that its candidates will win. The Party will ensure that all and every elective posts in Maguindanao and Cotabato City will be fielded with its official candidates,” Sinarimbo said.
The UBJP is a political party organized by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in 2014 and was duly registered with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in May 2015.
