By Samuel Agbelusi
The Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon. Funminiyi Afuye, is dead.
The Ekiti state government through the chief press secretary has confirmed the development in a press statement released to the public.
It was gathered that Afuye died at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital on Wednesday.
The cause of the death was as a result of cardiac arrest.
It was learnt that Afuye was rushed to the hospital in the early hours of Wednesday.
He attended the interfaith thanksgiving service organised to mark the commencement of the administration of Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, on Tuesday.
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.
