The Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Funminiyi Afuye, is dead.

He died on Wednesday evening in Ado-Ekiti, according to available reports

The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti State, Yinka Oyebode, has also confirmed the death of the Speaker.

Oyebode in a statement said Afuye was being treated for cardiac arrest when he died.

Afuye gave up at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti.

Aged 66, the late Afuye, 66, was a former Commissioner, Ekiti State Ministry of Information and two-time member of the State House of Assembly.

He became the Speaker of the House on June 6, 2019.