PDP LABAN endorsees Sali siters for Lugus, Sulu mayor and vice-mayor bets

Duterte's Bet PDP-Laban Lugus Sulu

Mayoralty and Vice Mayoralty bets

Hadja Amna Sali Macalangcom and

Hadja Dzubaida Sali Abdul, respectively,

strongly endorsed by Presidential aspirant

Davao City mayor Rudy Duterte.

ZAMBOANGA CITY (Jan 28, 2016) --- The PDP-Laban has recently endorsed Hadja Amna Sali Macalangcom as candidate for Mayor of Lugus, Sulu, a prominent businesswoman who belonged to a wealthy family whose vision is to turn her island hometown into haven of economic progress and development.

Hadja Amna, 53, as she is popularly known was officially nominated by PDP-Laban Deputy Secretary General Benito Ranque, who personally came to Zamboanga to proclaim all Presidential standard-bearer Mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte-led party candidates in Zamboanga peninsula and Basulta during a gathering last Nov. 28, 2015 held at Aristocrat Luncheonete and restautant in Canelar.

She filed her certificate of candidacy for Lugus, Sulu mayor last Oct. 15, 2015 is being strongly supported by townfolks and many local leaders as well as business and religious communities in the island municipality of Sulu’s second district.

Also running for vice-mayor is her sister Hadja Dzubaida Sali Abdul, who is also being supported by Duterte’s PDP-Laban and endorsed strongly by their family and local supporters. She was likewise officially endorsed by the party Sec. Gen. She is 51.

Considered as “unifiers” of their people, the sisters vowed to institute the needed reforms under the core principles and policies of the PDP-Laban platform of governance.

A midwife- nurse by profession, mayoralty bet Ms. Macalangcom believes in the need for change for the betterment of her impoverish and poor, marginalized people.” That’s why am running because I have to listen to the clamour and sentiments of our constituents,” Macalangcom stressed. She is married to Engr. Yusuf Khandie Macalangcom, a businessman who hails from Lanao province.

Vice-Mayor bet Hadja Dzubaida, presently engaged conventional family business, is a medical technologist who had briefly worked abroad in Hamad Medical Corp. Qatar for 7 years after being connected with the DOH, has also decided to thrown her candidacy for the same objective. Haj. Dzubaida married to Haji Cid Sangkula Abdul, grandson of Maas Jana Sangkula, of the Sangkula clan of Parang Sulu, who used to be Chief Medical technologist at the Integrated Provincial Health office in Sulu.

Tandem (sisters), whose forebears were respected public servants, successful businessmen and religious leaders and pioneering educators since the early 60’s vowed to elevate the living conditions of people and institute peace through unity and Islamic morality.

Like their father, the well known “Mastal Dakulah” the late Abdultalib Sali, public school teacher and their late mother the Hadja Fatima Irilis Sali (wealthy entrepreneur), the duo vowed to continue her advocacy and legacy of her parents.

Their maternal great grandfather was the respectable Panglima Rugasan or better known as “El Presidente”, who served for 45 years as leader of the island dating back to the pre-Philippine Republic, whose son Irilis became the mayor of the place for over 30 years as mayor. Mayor Irilis (Amna’s maternal grandfather) had also served public-spiritedly the constituents, when Ta-pul and Lugus Islands were one municipality at that time. 

Another son Hadji Alawi also became a mayor and served until the separation of the twin islands into separate municipalities under the Marcos regime by way of legislation. While another maternal uncle Hadji Butlangan was also elected vice-mayor.

Proud for his integrity their paternal grandfather the late Hadji Sali, who was a wealthy businessman (Asiendero and entrepreneur) while at the same time, considered among the first educators recognized in the province whose father is the first cousin of Western Mindanao Grand Mufti Ustadz Abdulbaki Abukakar.

Both believed that under the leadership of Duterte a new beginning will usher not only for Lugus and Sulu, but for the entire country which is in dire need for change. Uplift living condition of people by addressing puberty thru livelihood and entrepreneurship, they emphasized,

As business leaders, they have pioneered establishments of small –medium stall-owners associations in various malls in Metro Manila, Zamboanga and Jolo and taking the lead in construction and renovations of mosques in Muslim communities in many parts of the country.

Jinggoy Sali, a local resident said reform can only be possible if there is complete change of leadership to pave the way for alternative solutions to our woes and to face the challenge ahead. (BernCon)