Abdusakur "Sakur" Mahail Tan (born July 13, 1950 in Maimbung) is a Filipino politician and current governor of Sulu in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
[4] Tan was among 12 persons injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded at the arrival area of Zamboanga International Airport in August 2010.
The explosion occurred a few days after a suspected member of the regional terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), Edgar Malaydan, was arrested in Monkayo, Compostela Valley.
[6] Tan presumably became ineligible to run for chief minister after the Supreme Court ruled on September 9, 2024 that Sulu was not part of the BARMM due to a majority of its voters choosing not to join the region in a 2019 plebiscite.
[7] Tan welcomed the Supreme Court ruling despite its implication on his Chief Minister bid, believing that the province's exclusion from the autonomous region would be beneficial economically in the long run.