{"id":182915,"date":"2022-04-25T21:34:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T20:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=182915"},"modified":"2022-04-25T21:34:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T20:34:12","slug":"ex-minister-graham-douglas-dies-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/25\/ex-minister-graham-douglas-dies-at-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Minister Graham-Douglas dies at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A politician, elder statesman and four-time Minister Chief Alabo Tonye Graham-Douglas is dead.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the Rivers politician <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/22\/kenyas-ex-president-mwai-kibaki-dies-at-90\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breathed his last<\/a> on Monday at a private hospital in Abuja at 82.<\/p>\n<p>He was married to Muriel and blessed with 12 children and many grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>The Ijaw icon was born on May 8, 1939, in Abonnema in the Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Graham-Douglas was the son of a native court judge in Abonnema and his Napo Graham-Douglas was the first indigenous Attorney-General of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>In 1989, the military Administrator of Ibrahim Babangida appointed him Federal Minister for Social Development, Youths and Sports.<\/p>\n<p>He was later moved to the Ministry of Aviation, where he oversaw the deregulation of the aviation industry.<\/p>\n<p>Graham-Douglas was also a member of the Special Tenders Board, which developed the Abuja FCT.<\/p>\n<p>In 1992, Graham-Douglas became chairman of the Southern Minorities Movement, one of the groups that merged into the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>He was a candidate in the PDP primaries for the presidential nomination in 1998 but lost to Olusegun Obasanjo.<\/p>\n<p>President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed Graham-Douglas Minister of Employment, Labour and Productivity in June 1999.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2000, Graham-Douglas was moved to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2000 he headed a delegation that visited China, where he signed the 2000-2002 Executive Plan of Cultural and Educational Exchange between China and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2000, he hosted the Africa Travel Association\u2019s Fourth Ecotourism Symposium in Abuja.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A politician, elder statesman and four-time Minister Chief Alabo Tonye Graham-Douglas is dead. 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