Ekiti State House of Assembly, Speaker, Rt. Hon. Funminiyi Afuye is dead at 66.

The top politician reportedly died on Wednesday evening in Ado-Ekiti.

Afuye was said to have died at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, after suffering cardiac arrest.

The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti State, Yinka Oyebode, confirmed the death of the Speaker.

Oyebode in a statement confirmed that Afuye was being treated for cardiac arrest when he died.

The late Afuye was a former Commissioner, of the Ekiti State Ministry of Information, and a two-time member of the State Assembly.