The Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Justice Oyewole Adeyeye, has been confirmed dead after a protracted ailments.
Adeyeye passed on barely one year after he became indisposed 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.
The 64 years old judge’s death was announced on Tuesday by the Chief registrar of the Ekiti state Judiciary, Adegoke Olanike..
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.
