Sulu’s exit shakes up Bangsamoro: 5 scenarios for the 2025 polls

Before September 2024, the upcoming first regular election next year in the five-year-old Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) was already shaping up to be a highly anticipated event. 

Sulu Governor Abdusakur Tan, who announced his bid to become BARMM’s chief minister last May, was set to face whoever would emerge as the contender from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).  

There were speculations then that the MILF might not push Chief Minister Ahod “Murad” Ebrahim to serve another term...