Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Progressive Governors' Forum (PGF) first materialized in 1981 during the Second Republic when the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) held sway. Governors on the platform of the opposition, the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), then formed a forum through which they intended to project and implement what they believe are "progressive ideals". With the re-emergence of democracy in 1999 and the eventual decision, in 2013, by elements in the opposition to merge into a mega party, the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) once again emerged.Now, in the Fourth Republic, the PGF is a forum comprising all state governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the mega party which was borne of a merger between the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), and members from the All Peoples Grand Alliance (APGA), among others. The Forum was formed in the wake of the merger of legacy parties which merged to form the APC and at inception in August 2013, the PGF had 11 member governors comprising Borno, Edo, Ekiti, Imo, Lagos, Nassarawa, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Yobe, and Zamfara states; this number increased later when five additional governors from the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) defected to the APC after a crisis that gave rise to a faction known as the new-PDP.Sequel to the new merger with members from the new-PDP, the PGF comprised sixteen governors (Adamawa, Borno, Edo, Ekiti, Imo, Kano, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Rivers, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara states), this number, however, reduced to fourteen after Ekiti's Kayode Fayemi lost his re-election bid and Adamawa's Murtala Nyako was impeached, in June and July 2014 respectively.The APC recorded overwhelming victory in most states and the number of member governors increased to 22 after the April, 2015 gubernatorial elections."@en }
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- Progressive_Governors_Forum abstract "The Progressive Governors' Forum (PGF) first materialized in 1981 during the Second Republic when the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) held sway. Governors on the platform of the opposition, the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), then formed a forum through which they intended to project and implement what they believe are "progressive ideals". With the re-emergence of democracy in 1999 and the eventual decision, in 2013, by elements in the opposition to merge into a mega party, the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) once again emerged.Now, in the Fourth Republic, the PGF is a forum comprising all state governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the mega party which was borne of a merger between the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), and members from the All Peoples Grand Alliance (APGA), among others. The Forum was formed in the wake of the merger of legacy parties which merged to form the APC and at inception in August 2013, the PGF had 11 member governors comprising Borno, Edo, Ekiti, Imo, Lagos, Nassarawa, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Yobe, and Zamfara states; this number increased later when five additional governors from the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) defected to the APC after a crisis that gave rise to a faction known as the new-PDP.Sequel to the new merger with members from the new-PDP, the PGF comprised sixteen governors (Adamawa, Borno, Edo, Ekiti, Imo, Kano, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Rivers, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara states), this number, however, reduced to fourteen after Ekiti's Kayode Fayemi lost his re-election bid and Adamawa's Murtala Nyako was impeached, in June and July 2014 respectively.The APC recorded overwhelming victory in most states and the number of member governors increased to 22 after the April, 2015 gubernatorial elections.".