Hon. Funke Adedoyin, a member of the House of Representatives from Kwara State is dead.

According to a report from premiumtimes, she died of cancer on Friday afternoon, in Abuja.

The lawmaker who was 54-year-old was reported to have been battling the disease for sometime.

The late lawmaker, Funke Adedoyin was a daughter of famed Nigerian industrialist Samuel Adedoyin.
She was appointed as health minister by former President Olusegun Obasanjo between 1999-2003.

The late lawmaker was amongst a host of All Progressives Congress lawmakers who joined the Peoples Democratic Party in a mass defection along with the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.