A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Alabo Graham-Douglas has died.
According to reports, Douglas died at an hospital in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory.
Graham-Douglas became Commissioner for Youths, Sports and Culture in 1986 in the Rivers State government.
In 1989, the military government of Ibrahim Babangida appointed him Federal Minister for Social Development, Youths and Sports.
In 1992, Late 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 former President Olusegun Obasanjo
The deceased was the originator of CANIRIV in the 1980s, the first of it’s kind in Nigeria then, he was then serving as Commissioner for Culture and Tourism.
He helped in the creation of Akuku-Toru LGA, Rivers State.
