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Breaking: Ekiti CJ Oyewole Adeyeye Dies at 64

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The Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Justice Oyewole Adeyeye, died at a tertiary health institution in Ekiti on Monday November 4, 2024 after a brief illness.

Although details of his death have not been made known officially, sources told our reporter that he passed on after a brief stay at the hospital.

He was sworn in as a Chief Judge on October 11 2021 by former Governor Kayode Fayemi.

The Chief Judge was born in 1960 in Araromi Ugbesi in Ekiti East Local Government of Ekiti State and 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 times in the election petition tribunals.

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