The Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Funminiyi Afuye, is dead.
YOUNEWS confirmed that the Speaker died on Wednesday evening in Ado-Ekiti.
The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti State, Yinka Oyebode, confirmed the death of the Speaker.
Oyebode in a statement confirmed that Afuye was being treated for cardiac arrest when he died.
Afuye was said to have died at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti.
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.