The Chairman of Benue Progressive Forum in Plateau State, Sunday Obla, has been removed from office for financial impropriety.
Obla’s impeachment was carried out by members of the Executive Council and has been endorsed by the General Congress.
Briefing members of the Forum on Sunday evening, the Presiding Officer and Secretary General of the Forum, Comrade David Asor, said the decision to impeach Obla was arrived at an executive council meeting held on May 7, 2015.
Asor said: “The EXCO of the Benue Progressive Forum having been dissatisfied with the activities of the Chairman, Sunday Obla, due to financial impropriety and sidelining other members of the Exco, 11 members of the EXCO have however passed a vote of No Confidence on him and have signed his impeachment letter.”
He said the Vice Chairman of the Forum, Chief David Yuah, now becomes the acting chairman until a bye election is conducted according to the constitution of the Forum.
The Forum is made up of the the Igede, Idoma and Tiv communities living on the Plateau.