Haruna Aziz Zeego was elected Senator for the Kaduna South Senatorial District of

Kaduna State Kaduna State ( ha, Jihar Kaduna جىِهَر كَدُنا; ff, Leydi Kaduna, script=Latn, ; kcg, Sitet Kaduna) is a state in northern Nigeria. The state capital is its namesake, the city of Kaduna which happened to be the 8th largest city in ...

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at the start of the

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, running on the

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(PDP) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999. After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999, he was appointed to committees on Aviation (vice-chairman), Police Affairs, Women Affairs, Internal Affairs, Tourism & Culture and Social Development & Sports. Later he was appointed chairman of a committee on privatisation of the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company. In May 2001, he called on the

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to restore the two-party system to avoid the possibility of emergence of tribal parties.

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