Dimapur District GBs Association (DDGBA) has clarified that names proposed by a search committee for the post of president and other office-bearers did not qualify at that given point of time as these individuals had failed to pay their membership fee.
DDGBA adviser Tokuho Suhoi Neho in a press note claimed that two of the search committee members refused to sign the committee’s report. Therefore, report was disapproved by the house during its general conference at Diphupar B on November 24, 2018, he added. Subsequently, he said DDGBA held a meeting with its administrative units on December 1, 2018 and, after deliberation on the issue, the house resolved to reschedule selection/election of the new team within January 2019.
And as resolved by the house for a rescheduled date to install the new team of office bearers and since the report of the search committee was rejected by the November 24, 2018 general conference, the association’s president was duly and through a consensus elected unopposed by 25 out of the 37 members in the presence of NGBF officials as election observers on January 22, 2019. DDGBA claimed that the election of president or any other office bearer was done as per the resolution and purely in the interest of the association, adding that the present office bearers were smoothly working for the wellbeing of society.
It said the association is constituted by eight administrative units– Dimapur GBs Union (Sadar), Chumoukidema GBs Union, Medziphema GBs Union, Dhansiripar GBs Union, Kuhuboto GBs Union, Niuland GBs Union, Ato Area GBs Union and Aghunaqa GBs Union– and did not represent any particular area of Dimapur district nor a particular community or tribe.