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Breaking: Ekiti Speaker Afuye is dead

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Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Funminiyi Afuye is dead. He died at the age of 66 after suffering from Cardiac arrest on Wednesday.

He died on Wednesday evening at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH), Ado- Ekiti.

His death was announced by the Ekiti State Government.

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Afuye, before his demise, represented Ikere constituency 1. 

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A statement issued by Yinka Oyebode, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Biodun Oyebanji said the Government of Ekiti State regretted to announce the death of the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Funminiyi Afuye.

“Rt. Hon Afuye died Wednesday evening at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH), Ado- Ekiti, where he was receiving treatment after suffering a cardiac arrest,” the government said.
The late Afuye, 66, was a former Commissioner, the 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.
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