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Speaker Of Ekiti House Of Assembly Dies At 66
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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.