Ekiti State Governor Biodun Oyebanji has mourned the Speaker of the State House of Assembly Funminiyi Afuye, who died on Wednesday.
Afuye is reported to have died after at then hospital suffering a cardiac arrest.
He died at age 66.
The Chief Press Secretary to the State Governor, Yinka Oyebode, confirmed that, “Afuye died Wednesday evening at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti, where he was receiving treatment after suffering a cardiac arrest.”
Oyebode, in a statement, titled, “Speaker, Ekiti State House of Assembly, Funminiyi Afuye, passes”, said: “The government of Ekiti State regrets to announce the death of the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Funminiyi Afuye.
“The late Afuye, 66, was a former Commissioner, 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.”
Afuye was at the thanksgiving service of the new governor, Biodun Oyebanji, on Tuesday and later chaired the plenary session of the Assembly in the afternoon.
