This study assessed the future of the newly emerging Bangsamoro Islam political party as an outcome of the Comprehensive Agreement on Bangsamoro (CAB) signed by the Philippine Government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front. The CAB will create a semi-independent Bangsamoro government under the principle of one-state-two-systems. The Bangsamoro government will be the parliamentary system where the role of political parties becomes particularly important. Upon the backdrop of the political change, this article tried to draw a lesson from the experience of the Ompia party, which was established earlier to reform the corrupt traditional local politics in Lanao Del Sur. Upon studying, it was observed that the Ompia party failed to reform the local politics. Instead it simply followed the step of the traditional local politics by relying on the personality rather than ideology and seeking the patronage of the central politicians rather than the grass-root support. The Ulama, the leading group of the Ompia party, failed to exhibit its political capacity to deal with the secular conflict of interests. It was mainly due to the centralized political system of the Philippines, the exclusiveness of party membership structure, and the socioeconomic condition of the constituencies. Despite the failure of the Ompia party, it is undeniable that the Ulama is the only democratic alternative to the corrupted traditional local politics in the newly emerging Bangasamoro politics. The CAB would provide a different political environment that the Ompia party should have adjusted. Based on the lesson from the case of Ompia party, the newly emerging Bangsamoro Islam political party should capitalize this opportunity to establish the mass based democratic party structure, and to promote the socioeconomic development of the constituencies.