Wike: I almost died in 2018 after I was poisoned
The immediate past governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has disclosed that he almost died in 2018 after he was poisoned while he was at the secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The former governor who spearheaded the G-5 Governors said that the poison affected his liver and kidney and was flown abroad – Beirut for medical attention.
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Wike said this during a special thanksgiving service organised by his family at the St. Peters Deanery, Rumuepirikom, Obio-Akpor area of the state on Sunday.
According to him, he was miraculously saved as doctors returned to tell him all was fine.
He discharged and headed back into the country to continue with his campaign. “God was in charge, everybody who knew how we came to power in 2015, knew it was turbulent,” he narrated.
“But God saw us through. When you are in office, many people think things are going well with you. Nobody wants to find out the problems you are facing as a human.
“In December 2018, it was the day my former Chief of Staff was going to have thanksgiving. I was to attend that thanksgiving. From that Sunday on, I never came down from my room. It was bad.
“But those who attended the January 1 state banquet of 2019 will know that I never spoke that day. I just sat down there and told the deputy governor to speak on my behalf. I thought it was over.
“I didn’t know I had been poisoned at our party’s secretariat, the doctors, after some treatments, returned and told me my organs had started working again.”
