Former senator representing Adamawa South Senatorial District and one of the founding members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Jonathan Zwingina has died aged 7
He died on Wednesday in Abuja after a protracted illness.
Zwingina was the director general of the ‘Hope ’93’ presidential campaign organisation of the late Moshood Abiola of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 1993 election annulled by former military President General Ibrahim Babangida (retd).
Zwingina was elected senator in 1999 and re-elected in April 2003.
He sat on the Senate committees of works and housing, establishment, internal affairs, information, special projects, privatisation and economic affairs.
His contemporaries during the formation of PDP include former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, late Wilberforce Juta, Joel Madaki and late Solomon Lar among others.
