A former Nigerian Minister, Alabo Tonye Graham-Douglas is dead.
Gatekeepers News reports that the late Douglas died at an hospital in Abuja, FCT.
Graham-Douglas became Commissioner for Youths, Sports and Culture in 1986 in the Rivers State government.
He was appointed Nigerian Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture in 1989, then Minister of Aviation in General Ibrahim Babangida’s cabinet.
In 1992, Graham-Douglas became chairman of the Southern Minorities Movement, one of the groups that eventually merged into the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). He was a candidate in the PDP primaries for the presidential nomination in 1998, losing to Olusegun Obasanjo, who went on to become president.
In 1999, he was appointed Minister of Labour and Productivity, and in 2000, Minister of Tourism in the Olusegun Obasanjo cabinet, leaving office in January 2001.
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