Kohima, August 10 (MExN): President of the Naga People’s Front, Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu has stated that the party has one President and two Working Presidents as enshrined in the NPF Constitution.
“These three were elected strictly as per the provisions of the Constitution and voted by the active members in the General Convention in 2014 for the tenure 2014-2020. Except these three, there is no other President and there is no vacancy either,” the NPF President stated in a statement released to the media.
Arguing that the present arrangement of non-NPF members talking about interim president is “simply to create confusion” in the minds of the people, Liezietsu insisted that Neiphiu Rio is nobody in the Central Office. “He is only a suspended M.P. who was elected on NPF ticket. We have no post of interim president in Central Office,” it added.
Liezietsu made it clear that anyone who signed the paper lending support to the leadership of Rio should know that the latter “has already left the NPF party at his own”.
In this regard, the NPF President directed every NPF Division to cross check and update the position and fill up all those vacancies caused by defection of some of the erstwhile NPF members.
