Speaker, Ekiti State House of Assembly, Funminiyi Afuye is dead.
Afuye, who represents Ikere constituency 1, died on Wednesday evening at 66 after a brief illness.
The state government says the Speaker passed on at the state-owned Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH).
“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,” Yinka Oyebode, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Abiodun Oyebanji, said in a statement on Wednesday.
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The Speaker appeared at the inauguration of Governor Biodun Oyebanji, on Sunday and was said to have also attended plenary on Tuesday before the sudden turn of events on Wednesday.
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