The Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Funminiyi Afuye, is dead.

He died of cardiac arrest.

The Speaker died at the age of 66.

Yinka Oyebode, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Abiodun Oyebanji, said in a statement on Wednesday that: “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 late Afuye, 66, was a former Commissioner of the Ekiti State Ministry of Information, and a two-time member of the State Assembly. He was inaugurated Speaker of the sixth Assembly on June 6, 2019,” he added.

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