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CM Ebrahim appeals for clean, fair 2025 elections during Maguindanao Norte Assembly

Cotabato City- During United Bangsamoro Justice Party (UB JP) General Assembly, Saturday, June 22 at the Mindanao State University  Gym in Poblacion Dalican, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao Del Norte where over a hundred thousands members attended, BARMM Chief Minister Ahod B. Ebrahim appealed for a clean and fair elections in 2025. 
UBJP, the political party of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) provincial general assembly dubbed “Matu Tanu,” which means “we will fight” in the Maguindanaoan and Maranao languages.

The event was highlighted by the provincial chapter’s report and the oath of loyalty to the party by the new UBJP members.
“This assembly is a testament and declaration that the MILF, through the UBJP, is serious about its official participation to the first parliamentary election (in the Bangsamoro region). We are one in calling for clean and fair elections in 2025,” Ebrahim said. 
With the big number of members and supporters who attended the event, the MSU gymnasium could not accommodate the attendees, but organizers addressed this by mounting wide screen video and loudspeakers so they can see and hear the speakers.
“Our homeland and Islam are what is at stake in the 2025 (parliamentary election). It is the interest of the Bangsamoro people and we are the forces of change,” Professor Abdullah Adam, one of the key UBJP leaders in Maguindanao del Norte,” said.

The UBJP is expected to square it off with the BARMM Grand Coalition (BGC), which is composed of the region’s well-entrenched political dynasties, Mindanews report said Monday, June 24 .

The BGC includes the Al-Ittihad-UKB  Party of Sultan Kudarat former governor and now TESDA chief Suharto “Teng” Mangudadatu and his wife Governor Bai Mariam Mangudadatu of Maguindanao del Sur, the SIAP Party of Governor Mamintal Adiong Jr. of Lanao del Sur, the Bangsamoro People’s Party of former ARMM Governor and now Basilan Representative Mujiv Hataman, and Salam Party of Sulu Governor Sakur Tan, the report said.

The political parties agreed that “it is time to end the era of warlordism, the dismantling of private armed groups and the full implementation of the decommissioning process of former MILF rebels.”

“To say that we are ready in the upcoming election, we must disarm private armed groups, they are the source of dishonesty and coercions,” said lawyer Omar Sema, secretary general and spokesperson of Bangsamoro Party of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). Sema is also a member of the interim Bangsamoro Parliament.