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FACTS: Petitioner Dipatuan and private respondent Aleem Hosain Amanoddin were candidates
for Mayor of Bacolod Grande in the 1 February 1988 special local elections in Lanao del Sur. The
other private respondents were candidates for Vice-Mayor and Councilors in the same
municipality.
On 21 February 1988, the Municipal Board of Canvassers of Bacolod Grande, chaired by Samuel
Minalang, finished canvassing the votes but did not proclaim the winning candidates. It did so
on 29 February 1988, when private respondent Amanoddin was proclaimed winner and elected
Mayor.
Earlier, on 25 February 1988, petitioner Dipatuan was proclaimed Mayor by a separate Board of
Canvassers headed by one Mamacaog Manggray, after the said Board had excluded the
election returns from Precincts Nos. 15, 17 and 21 from its canvass.
The Comelec En Banc set aside both (a) the proclamation made by the Minalang Board for
being premature, the candidates not having been given the opportunity to appeal, and (b) the
proclamation by the Manggray Board on the ground that the latter Board had not been
properly constituted. A Special Board of Canvassers ("Special Board") was therefore convened
in Manila by the Comelec to recanvass the election returns from Bacolod Grande, Lanao del Sur.
On 21 June 1988, during the recanvass, petitioner objected to the inclusion of the election
returns from Precincts Nos. 15 and 17, contending that the returns from the two (2) precincts
were spurious and manufactured". In this connection, petitioner seasonable converted his oral
objection into written form and submitted certified copies of the voting records and voter's
affidavits and affidavits of witnesses. The petitioner claimed that the questioned returns were
"obviously manufactured" within the eaning of Section 243 (c) of the Omnibus Election Code
and that therefore a pre-proclamation controversy existed which must be resolved before
proclamation of the winning candidates Petitioner contended the following irregularities had
attended at the Bacolod Grande local elections