Datu Sajid Islam Uy Ampatuan is a Filipino politician who served as governor of Maguindanao.
[1] He and his brothers Zaldy, Anwar and Andal Jr., and brother-in-law Akmad were implicated to the massacre and were detained.
[3] Tasked by his father to lead the "reunification" of the Ampatuan political clan, Sajid Ampatuan would run for the position of mayor of Shariff Aguak in the 2016 elections under the United Nationalist Alliance.
[6] In 2017, several corruption charges were filed against Ampatuan which is connected to his tenure as acting governor of Maguindanao from 2008 to 2009.
[7][8][9][10] Ampatuan is married to Bai Zandria Sinsuat, who served as mayor of Shariff Saydona Mustapha.