Jonathan Silas Zwingina was elected Senator for the Adamawa South constituency of Adamawa State

Adamawa State

Adamawa is a state in northeastern Nigeria, with its capital at Yola. It was formed in 1991 from part of Gongola State with four administrative divisions namely: Adamawa, Ganye, Mubi and Numan. It is one of the thirty-six States which constitute the Federal Republic of Nigeria.-Geography:Adamawa...

, Nigeria

Nigeria

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 at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic

Nigerian Fourth Republic

The Fourth Republic is the republican government of Nigeria. Since 1999 it has governed the country according to the fourth republican constitution. It was in many ways a revival of the Second Republic, which was in place between 1979 and 1983 and suffers many of the same problems, such as multiple...

, running on the People's Democratic Party

People's Democratic Party (Nigeria)

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 (PDP) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999.
He was reelected in April 2003, again on the PDP platform.
After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999, he was appointed to committees on Works & Housing (chairman), Establishment, Internal Affairs, Information, Special Projects, Privatization and Economic Affairs.
Zwingina's palatial residence in Abuja

Abuja

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 was demolished in February 2007, allegedly on the orders of Nasir el-Rufai, the Federal Capital Territory Minister.