{"id":36188,"date":"2021-01-31T17:11:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T17:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ekiti-state-assembly-apc-loses-member-adegbuyi"},"modified":"2021-01-31T17:10:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T17:10:34","slug":"ekiti-state-assembly-apc-loses-member-adegbuyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ekiti-state-assembly-apc-loses-member-adegbuyi","title":{"rendered":"Ekiti State Assembly, APC loses member, Adegbuyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>A member representing Ekiti East constituency 1 in the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon Olawajuwon Adegbuyi, is dead.<\/p>\n<p>Adegbuyi, a member of the All Progressives Congress, died on Saturday after a brief illness.<\/p>\n<p>A family member confirmed to DAILY POST on Sunday that the late lawmaker had started complaining of persistent headache since Wednesday, which escalated on Friday and led to his eventual death.<\/p>\n<p>The source said: \u201cHe had been complaining of a headache for days and his family said he should take a rest which he complied with. But his situation degenerated on Friday evening and he gave up the ghost Saturday evening\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Responding, the Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon. Funminiyi Afuye said he was devastated by the death of his colleague, Adegbuyi.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Akogun Tai Oguntayo, described Adegbuyi\u2019s death as \u201ca devastating one in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIn fact, I am speechless. Hon Adegbuyi, a complete gentleman who represented his Constituency well, was one of the finest and vibrant lawmakers in the sixth assembly. He died in the hospital after a brief illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a unique Assembly of 26 brothers and sisters and now the cold hand of death suddenly dealt us this terrible blow! It\u2019s unbelievable and highly unbearable. But we can\u2019t question God\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pray to God to grant the family and Ekiti State the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker who expressed sadness over the incident called on the entire State to raise their voice in prayers to God in order to stop the untimely death of young stars in Ekiti. Up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A member representing Ekiti East constituency 1 in the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon Olawajuwon Adegbuyi, is dead. Adegbuyi, a member of the All Progressives Congress, died on Saturday after a brief illness. A family member confirmed to DAILY POST on Sunday that the late lawmaker had started complaining of persistent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":36187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[2760,1570,2140,34,2761,254],"class_list":["post-36188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-adegbuyi","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-apc","tag-ekiti-state-assembly","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ekiti State Assembly, APC loses member, Adegbuyi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A member representing Ekiti East constituency 1 in the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon Olawajuwon Adegbuyi, is dead.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ekiti-state-assembly-apc-loses-member-adegbuyi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ekiti State Assembly, APC loses member, Adegbuyi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A member representing Ekiti East constituency 1 in the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon Olawajuwon Adegbuyi, is dead.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ekiti-state-assembly-apc-loses-member-adegbuyi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-31T17:11:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/img-6016e44f12dc8.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"674\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ekiti-state-assembly-apc-loses-member-adegbuyi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ekiti-state-assembly-apc-loses-member-adegbuyi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ekiti State Assembly, APC loses member, Adegbuyi\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-31T17:11:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ekiti-state-assembly-apc-loses-member-adegbuyi\"},\"wordCount\":287,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ekiti-state-assembly-apc-loses-member-adegbuyi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/img-6016e44f12dc8.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Adegbuyi\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"APC\",\"Ekiti State Assembly\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ekiti-state-assembly-apc-loses-member-adegbuyi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ekiti-state-assembly-apc-loses-member-adegbuyi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/ekiti-state-assembly-apc-loses-member-adegbuyi\",\"name\":\"Ekiti State Assembly, APC loses member, Adegbuyi - 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