Jonathan Zwingina, a former Senate Majority Leader and prominent political figure, has reportedly passed away at the age of 70.

News360 Nigeria reports that Zwingina, who also served as the Director-General of MKO Abiola’s campaign in the historic June 12, 1993 presidential election, died on Wednesday, October 2, in Abuja, after a prolonged illness.

Though his family has not yet made an official announcement, reports from Leadership Newspaper confirm the passing of the Adamawa State-born politician.

Zwingina was a former senator representing Adamawa South Senatorial District and was instrumental in shaping Nigeria’s political landscape.

A founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Zwingina later switched allegiance to the All Progressives Congress (APC) during his political career. His death marks the end of a significant chapter in Nigerian politics.

Mindlog:
He has bowed out...we all would, someday.

SirdeKay:
He was a master political strategist

naptu2:
This reminds me of Jonathan Zwingina.



Why Jonathan Zwingina?


I have been hooked on NTA's coverage of elections since 1987. It is always very interesting. They usually bring representatives of the political parties to talk about what their agents on the field are reporting and to react to NTA News reports, they bring DIGPol Ops to talk about the security situation, they bring professors (like Alaba Ogunsanwo) to talk generally about the elections, etc.

In 1993 they had the directors general of the two campaign organisations. I can't remember who was the DG of Tofa's campaign organisation, but Jonathan Zwingina was the DG of Abiola's campaign organisation.

The NTA showed a report about Chief Abiola casting his vote. He was wearing a green agbada with a white horse on it. The SDP logo was a green background with a white horse on it.

The DG of Tofa's campaign organisation complained. All campaign activities were supposed to have ceased 24 hours before the election and there were not suppose to be any party logos or slogans at the polling centres. He said that Chief Abiola had violated the law.

Jonathan Zwingina said that his good friend (the DG of the Tofa campaign organisation) did not know what he was talking about because if you look closely, you'll realise that what was on Chief Abiola's agbada was a unicorn, not a horse.

I almost died of laughter.