IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – The Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Funminiyi Afuye, has died at the age of 66, following a cardiac arrest.
“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 Wednesday.
“The late legislator 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.”
The Speaker was elected as the Speaker of the sixth assembly in 2019.
He represented Ikere I constituency at the state legislature before his demise.
Afuye served as Commissioner for Information during Governor Kayode Fayemi’s first term between 2010 and 2014.