successor birth_place office width term_start article_title term_end name
grace folashade bent adamawa state , nigeria senator for adamawa south 150px may 1999 jonathan zwingina
 may 2007 jonathan silas zwingina
jonathan zwingina

jonathan silas zwingina was elected senator for the adamawa south constituency of adamawa state , nigeria at the start of the nigerian fourth republic , running on the people 's democratic party -lrb- pdp -rrb- 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 -lrb- chairman -rrb- , establishment , internal affairs , information , special projects , privatization and economic affairs .
zwingina 's palatial residence in abuja was demolished in february 2007 , allegedly on the orders of nasir el-rufai , the federal capital territory minister .
