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Senator Zwingina Dies At 70

Posted by Amarachi on Thu 03rd Oct, 2024 - tori.ng

The former lawmaker died on Wednesday at the age of 70 in Abuja after a protracted illness.

Jonathan Silas Zwingina

Jonathan Silas Zwingina

Jonathan Silas Zwingina, a former lawmaker who represented Adamawa South constituency in the Senate and ex-director-general of the MKO Abiola campaign Organisation in the June 12, 1993, presidential election, has passed on.

Zwingina was the director general of the ‘Hope ’93’ presidential campaign organisation of the late Chief Moshood Abiola of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 1993 election annulled by former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (Retd).

The former lawmaker died on Wednesday at the age of 70 in Abuja after a protracted illness.

Zwingina a former Senator representing Adamawa Southern Senatorial District was one of the founding members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where he was elected in 1999 and reelected in April 2003.

He served on the Senate Committees of Works & Housing, Establishment, Internal Affairs, Information, Special Projects, Privatization and Economic Affairs.