Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Rt Hon. Funminiyi Afuye is dead.
Afuye, 66, died on Wednesday evening after suffering cardiac arrest.
The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Yinka Oyebode in a terse statement said the Speaker died at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital.
Precision Online Newspaper gathered that the late Afuye’s death comes few days to his son’s wedding.
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.