Ekiti State House of Assembly Speaker, representing Ikere constituency 1, Funminiyi Afuye, is dead.

The 66-year-old passed away on Wednesday at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital in  the city capital Ado-Ekiti,

Report has it that Afuye was rushed to the hospital in the early hours of Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the lawmaker attended the Thanksgiving Service for Governor Biodun Oyebanji, who just assumed office.