By Gbenga Sodeinde in Ado Ekiti
The Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Hon Justice Oyewole Adeyeye has died.
A reliable source who would not like his name to be mentioned confirmed to HERITAGE NEWS in Ado Ekiti.
According to the source, Justice Adeyeye died in the early hours of today.
Investigation by HERITAGE NEWS revealed that Justice Adeyeye has been indisposed since July 12, 2023 following serious injury he sustained when a section of the state high court complex wall collapsed on him in his office, in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti state capital.
Justice Adeyeye was born 1960 in Araromi Ugbesi in Ekiti East Local Government of Ekiti State and was called to bar in 1986.
He started his career as a State counsel in the Civil service of the old Ondo State before joining the Ekiti State Judiciary Service Commission shortly after the creation of the State in 1996.
He got elevated to the position of a judge in the Ekiti State high court in 2002 and has served at different time in the election petition tribunal.