A former Minister of Petroleum resources, Alabo Tonye Graham-Douglas has died on Monday, April 25, 2022 in a hospital in Abuja, FCT.
He was one of the founding fathers of the now main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The elder statesman and patriarch of Graham-Douglas family from Abonnema in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State was a four-time federal minister and the son of a native court judge who settled disputes and altercations in his immediate Abonema, he is of Ijaw origin.
Confirming the incident, Chief Ngo Martins Yellowe, a Kalabari High Chief said the late Minster had been sick for some time.
His brother, Napo Graham-Douglas, was the first indigenous Attorney-General of Nigeria. In 2000, Graham-Douglas was appointed Provincial Grand Master of the Freemason’s Lodge in Calabar.
In 1989 the military government of Ibrahim Babangida appointed him Federal Minister for Social Development, Youths and Sports.
He at other times became Minister of Employment, Labour and Productivity in June 1999, and got re-deployed to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2000. He is survived by his wife Muriel, children and lots of grandchildren.