The Speaker of Ekiti House of Assembly, Mr. Funminiyi Afuye, is dead.
This is contained in a statement by Mr. Yinka Oyebode, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Biodun Oyebanji in Ado-Ekiti yesterday.
According to Oyebode, Afuye died yesterday evening at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH), Ado-Ekiti, where he was receiving treatment after suffering a Cardiac arrest.
This Nigeria also gathered that Afuye died while discussing with one of the top All Pro- gressive Congress chieftains. The late Speaker, 66, was a former Commissioner of the Ekiti State Ministry of Information, and a two-time member of the State Assembly.
2023: Wike to chair 350-member Rivers PDP campaign council
“He was inaugurated Speaker of the sixth Assembly on June 6, 2019,” Oyebode said. Meanwhile, the State House of Assembly, in a statement by Mrs. Yemisi Ayokunle, the Chairman, House Committee on Media and Publicity, said that the late speaker died during a brief illness.
Ayokunle said that the assembly has declared a seven-day mourning period in his honor.
She said that it was also directed that the flag in the Assembly complex should be flown at half-mast.
