By VIOLETA M. GLORIA
Mindanews
ILIGAN CITY. — It’s all Dimaporos – mother, son and daughter – taking the highest elective posts in Lanao del Norte.
Reelected governor is Mohamad Khalid Dimaporo, whose mother and former governor, Imelda Q. Dimaporo has been elected representative of Lanao del Norte’s first district. Khalid’s sister Fatimah Aliah will represent the the second district.
All three were all proclaimed winners by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Wednesday.
Comelec figures show that Khalid, who won his second term, gathered 179,402 votes with his rival Alijandro Batalo a far second getting 17,755 votes.
Fatima Aliah will succeed her father Abdullah, now on his third and last term.
Imelda ran and lost against Vicente “Varf” Belmonte in the 2007 elections when Iligan City was still part of the first district of Lanao del Norte, but starting this year, Iligan has become a separate congressional district.
Khalid’s party mate, Irma Umpa-Ali, was also proclaimed vice governor.
Proclaimed provincial board members were Benny Baguio, Tominaman Sumalipao, Acmad Cotongan, Macabangkit Tawan-tawan and Tawantawan Cauntongan.
The Dimaporos are also behind the party-list Action Dynamic for Development (ADD) that garnered a relatively high number of votes in the province but still needs to contend with other party-list groups in the national count.
Irma Jean Rosales, assistant to the provincial election officer, said that unlike in previous polls here, there have been no complaints so far relating to the results of last Monday’s elections.