Kogiflame
The Speaker, Ekiti State House of Assembly, Funminiyi Afuye, has passed on.
Afuye, who represents Ikere constituency 1, died on Wednesday around 6pm at the age of 66, after a brief illness.
A member of the House who spoke on the condition of anonymity while the death said he was rushed to the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH) Ado-Ekiti in the early hours of Wednesday after developing complications over undisclosed ailment.
Afuye, a lawyer, was said to have died after attempts by medical doctors to save his life failed.
The source disclosed to Nigerian Tribune that the vociferous lawmaker died of cardiac arrest.
Afuye appeared at the inauguration of Governor Biodun Oyebanji, on Sunday and was full of life when he accompanied the new governor to inspect some ongoing road projects in the state capital on Tuesday afternoon.
The source said, ” Our speaker and leader is dead. We learnt he developed sudden complications this morning(Wednesday) and was rushed to the hospital where he died later in the evening.
“This event is funny and shocking because he was full of life and active in the last few days. He was at the swearing-in ceremony on Sunday, he led some of us to the governor on Monday, and Tuesday we accompanied Oyebanji to inspect some roads in Ado-Ekiti.
” But on Wednesday morning, he was rushed taken to the hospital but unfortunately we lost him. We were told it is cardiac arrest.”
Afuye, who was in the assembly between 2007 and 2011, was spending his second term in the assembly and his tenure was billed to expire June 6, 2023.
