Ekiti Assembly Gets New Speaker, Deputy Speaker

Hon. Funniniyi Afuye, a former commissioner for Information in Ekiti state also representing Ikere constituency, has on Thursday, emerged the Speaker of the 6th assembly in Ekiti State.

He was a member of the assembly between 2007 and 2011 under the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).

Afuye was the Former Leader of Government Business in the Ekiti State House of Assembly between 2010 and 2011, when Fayemi won through the judicial process at the court of appeal.

Afuye was first elected the leader of opposition in 2007 when Segun Oni was in the saddle, due to the 13-13 equal configuration between ACN and the People’s Democratic Party in the then assembly.

He subsequently became the majority leader when Hon Tunji Odeyemi became the Speaker when two PDP lawmakers defected to ACN to stabilise the assembly for Fayemi.

Meanwhile, the former Senior Special Assistant on Research and Documentation to Governor Kayode Fayemi, also representing Irepodun/Ifelodun constituency II, Hon. Hakeem Jamiu, was unanimously elected as the Deputy Speaker.

However, the two officers were on Thursday sworn in by the Clerk of the House, Mr.Tola Esan.