THE Moro National
Liberation Front has recently elected a new vice chairman following the
expulsion of its former deputy whom Nur Misuari had described as a government
collaborator, an official said Wednesday.
Sultan Firdausi
Abbas, who started the formation of the Moro National Liberation Front,
disclosed the appointment of Sultan Pundama Sani, the Sultan of Guimba in Lanao
del Sur, as the group’s new vice chairman replacing Jimmy Labawan, who was
ordered ejected by Misuari for insubordination.
Sani, according
to Abbas, was unanimously elected on the imprimatur of Misuari and other
high-ranking political and military officers of the MNLF during a conference in
an undisclosed site in Southern Mindanao , as
part of the group’s reorganization process.
“The new
vice chairman is one of the three living active veterans of the top 90—the
first batch of Moro trainees including Chairman Misuari who were sent to train
in Sabah, Malaysia, in 1969 by the Union of Islamic Forces Organization under
the leadership of Sultan of Bayang, Rashid Lucman, chairman and then
Congressman of Lanao del Sur, and Sultan of Dayawan, Macapanton Yahya Abbas
Jr., Secretary-General pursuant to the agreement with then Prime Minister
Tungku Abdul Rahman of Malaysia in 1969, which was forged in Penang,” Abbas
said.
Labawan was
booted out by Misuari after he was accused by Misuari of misrepresenting the
MNLF in recent negotiations with the government relating to the resumption of
the stalled tripartite review talks of the 1996 final peace agreement between
the Philippines
Labawan
reportedly represented himself unilaterally as the official delegate of the
MNLF to the scheduled GRP-MNLF talks in Jakarta
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