Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Funminiyi Afuye is dead
Afuye who represented Ikere constituency 1 died at the age of 66 after suffering Cardiac arrest on Wednesday.
He died on Wednesday evening at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH), Ado- Ekiti.
It was gathered that he was preparing for his son’s wedding Saturday
Yinka Oyebode, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Biodun Oyebanji in a statement said the Government of Ekiti State regretted to announce the death of the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Funminiyi Afuye.
“Rt. Hon Afuye died Wednesday evening at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH), Ado- Ekiti, where he was receiving treatment after suffering a cardiac arrest,” the government said.
The late Afuye, 66, was a former Commissioner, Ekiti State Ministry of Information and two- time member of the State Assembly.
He was inaugurated Speaker of the sixth Assembly on June 6, 2019.
