Rumpus In Ekiti Over Cause Of Speaker’s Death

By Ayodele Oni

Allegations and counter allegations have continued to trail the sudden death of the Speaker, Ekiti State House of Assembly, Funminiyi Afuye, who passed on last week.

A cross section of the people, especially from his country home, Ikere Ekiti believe the Speaker was poisoned.

The people even lay claim to an autopsy report, which they claimed has been sent to the deceased relations.

Before his death last week due to heart related ailment, there has been pressure of Afuye to relinquish his position as Speaker, due to the emergence of another Ikere indigene, as deputy Governor.

With the election of Mrs Monisade Afuye and her inauguration as deputy to Governor Biodun Abayomi,  the position of the Speaker automatically goes to Ekiti north senatorial district.

On the day he died, four days to the wedding of her daughter, Afuye was reported to have series of meetings with assembly members and the Governor before he complained of a undisclosed ailment later in the evening.

However, in a reaction, the Management of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti, in a statement, debunked the rumours making rounds that the Autopsy result of the late Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon. Funminiyi Afuye was found to be “poisoning”.

While responding to the fake news, the Chief Medical Director of the Hospital, Professor Kayode Olabanji urged the public to disregard the misinformation.

The CMD noted that, even though an autopsy was done on the late Speaker, the preliminary results did not indicate he was poisoned neither was any foul play suspected.

He explained that the final reports which require laboratory investigations will take some days and it’s not likely to have a significant change in the earlier findings.

According to him, there are procedures, rules and regulations guiding autopsy results saying whenever the result is ready, it will be given to his next of kin, and not the public.

He added that that Forensic Pathologists will never issue a social media report on

the dead as it’s against Medical ethics.

Prof Olabanji advised the public to ignore the rumours, stressing that it is the handiwork of mischief makers.