Funminiyi Afuye: Ekiti Assembly Declares Seven Days Mourning Over Speaker’s Death

The Ekiti State House of Assembly has decided to pay their respect to the departed Speaker, Funminiyi Afuye, by mourning him for the next seven working days.

Naija News reports that Afuye who represented Ikere constituency 1 of the state died on Wednesday evening around 6 pm at the age of 66 after a brief illness.

Prior to the news of his death, Afuye was part of the dignitaries who on Sunday attended the inauguration of Governor Biodun Oyebanji.

Mourning the late lawmaker, the chairman House Committee on media, Yemisi Ayokunle, in a statement handed to newsmen in Ado Ekiti said the flag in the Assembly complex would be flown at half-mast during the mourning period.

Ayokunle described the late Speaker as an embodiment of courage, and excellence and a highly committed man to public service, adding that the deceased will be greatly missed.

According to the statement, the Speaker died on Wednesday evening during a brief illness at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti, at the age of 66.

Court Nullifies Two APC Primaries In Yobe 

Two primary elections of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the House of Assembly in Yobe State were on Wednesday declared null by the Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu.

Naija News gathered that the constituencies affected are Fika/Ngalfa and Jaskusko constituencies. The presiding judge, Justice Fadima Murtala Aminu in the ruling directed the APC to conduct fresh primaries for the positions within 14 days.

Justice Murtala also warned the party not to temper with the list of the authentic delegates sent to INEC.

In a related development, a former senatorial aspirant for the Yobe North ticket in Yobe State, Abubakar Jinjiri, has withdrawn the suit he filed against the APC senatorial candidate for the senatorial district, Bashir Machina, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the APC over the senatorial ticket.

Jinjiri, through his counsel, Barrister Usman Lukman Nuhu, told Justice Fadima Aminu of the Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, that a notice of discontinuance had been filed and served on the defendants in the matter, Naija News reports.