ILIGAN CITY—Maranao society is in mourning the passing of Princess Tarhata Alonto-Lucman, Lanao del Sur’s first woman governor and among the few local chief executives who defied the strongman rule of Ferdinand Marcos.
The 94-year-old Lucman died just before daybreak on Friday at the Amai Pakpak Medical Center where she was confined for medical attention.
Maranao women’s rights advocate and leader Samira Gutoc described Lucman as a leadership icon and the Bangsamoro’s equivalent of ‘The Iron Lady’ Margaret Thatcher.
“We lost a true leader and a peacebuilder of the Bangsamoro,” said Lanao del Sur Governor Mamintal Adiong Jr., a grandnephew of Lucman.
Adiong noted how Lucman …
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