Newsbreak: Ekiti State Speaker Niyi Afuye is dead 

Newsbreak: Ekiti State Speaker Niyi Afuye is dead

By Ayo Ajayi

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

The late native of Ikere lawyer dies at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital after suffering cardiac arrest

In a statement made available to Irohinoodua, the Government Ekiti State regrets to announce the death of the Speaker.
He was a leading member of the National Democratic Coalition, NADECO. He was also a member of the pioneer Yoruba self determination groups in the 1990s. He was the first Chairman of the Pan Yoruba Youth summit organised by Coalition of Oodua Self Determination Groups, COSEG in 1999.

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 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.