Ondo Assembly Declares Seven-day Mourning After Speaker’s Death

Late Hon Samuel Ajayi Adesina
Late Hon Samuel Ajayi Adesina

The Ondo State House of Assembly Wednesday declared a seven-day mourning in honour of the late Speaker of the House, Hon Samuel Ajayi Adesina.

Adesina died on Tuesday in an undisclosed hospital after losing his battle against cancer of urinary bladder.

Disclosing the declaration of the mourning period, Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Hon Oyebo Aladetan, added that the House had set up a burial committee headed by a member representing the Odigbo 1 Constituency in the Assembly, Hon Victor Akinwe.