The former deputy governor died around 8 pm on Friday after a brief illness.

Bisi Egbeyemi, the immediate past Ekiti Deputy Governor, has passed on at 78.

Egbeyemi was a deputy governor to Governor Kayode Fayemi. He served between 2018 and 2022.

The former deputy governor died around 8 pm on Friday after a brief illness.

He was to have died at a private hospital in Ado-Ekiti.