Caption:Senator Jonathan Zwingina
Senator Jonathan Zwigina,founding campaign Director of Hope 93 Campaign Organisation of late Moshood Abiola is dead.
He passed on today after a protracted illness.
Zwingina was one of the founding members of PDP and was elected as a senator on the platform of the party in 1999
He was also a former Majority Leader, in the defunct National Assembly durubg the thrud republic transition programme which presidential election won by late Moshood Abiola of the Social Democratic Party,SDP.
The former lawmaker who represented Adamawa South Senatorial District in the senate gave up the ghost on Wednesday at the age of 70.
A reliable source confirmed to this reporter today that he died in an hospital in Abuja after a protracted illness.
Zwingina was the director general of the ‘Hope ’93’ presidential campaign organisation of late Chief Moshood Abiola of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 1993 election annulled by former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (Retd).
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He was also a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), where he was elected as a senator in 1999 and reelected in April 2003.
While in the senate, he served on the Senate Committees of Works & Housing, Establishment, Internal Affairs, Information, Special Projects, Privatization and Economic Affairs.
Zwingina’s residence in Abuja was demolished in 2007, allegedly on the orders of former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai.






