The Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly Rt. Hon Funminiyi Afuye has died following a cardiac arrest. 

The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Abiodun Oyebanji, Yinka Oyebode, said in a statement on Wednesday that Afuye died Wednesday evening at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital Ado- Ekiti, where he was receiving treatment after suffering a cardiac arrest.

The late 66 years old Afuye, was a former Commissioner of the Ekiti State Ministry of Information, and a two-time member of the State Assembly.