Governor Yari emerged at the end of the meeting of the Forum held at the Lagos/Osun Hall of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja.
The outgoing chairman of the body and Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, read the communique of the meeting to journalists.
Amaechi said Yari emerged chairman by consensus and would serve for a period of one year.
Yari was former deputy chairman of the Forum. But a new deputy chairman is yet to be elected.
The Rivers Governor also said after over a year of bickering, all the governors had now “reconciled and are United as a single umbrella association of the 36 state governors of Nigeria.”
Amaechi also said in the light of the fact that funds in the Excess Crude Account were last disbursed in May 2013, “there is the need for the Minister of Finance and coordinating Minister for the economy Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to provide explanation for accruals to this account from June 2013 to April 2015 which is estimated at over N20billion”.
About 20 governors, including some deputies, attended Monday’s meeting. Monday’s meeting is the first time the state chief executives came together as a united body.
