Wike said that in December 2018 when he was to attend the thanksgiving of his former Chief of Staff, Emeka Woke, he was incapacitated to attend the event because he had been poisoned.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has alleged that he was poisoned at the national secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2018.
Wike stated this on Sunday at the family thanksgiving service organised in his honour at St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Rumuepirikom Deanery of the Diocese of Niger Delta North.
The former governor explained that he cannot talk about his triumph in office as governor without attributing the victories to God.
The ex-governor recalled that on one fateful Sunday in December 2018, when he was due to attend the thanksgiving of his former Chief of Staff, Emeka Woke, he was incapacitated to attend the event because he had been poisoned.
He stated, “From that Sunday, I never came down from my room. It was bad, but those who attended the January 1st state banquet of 2019, will know that I never spoke that day. I just sat down there and I told my deputy governor to speak on my behalf.
“People didn’t know what was going on. After that banquet, by 12 midnight, I was taken out of the country because I thought it was over.
“When we got to Beirut, the doctors looked at me and I was looking at them. They were not telling me anything, they said we have to do many tests.”
He stated that the next morning the doctors returned and presented a gloomy report that his kidney and liver were no longer functioning.
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“I never knew that I had been poisoned in our campaign secretariat. My intestinal were all black. The doctors did all they could do,” Wike said.
“But, through divine providence, what would have been a disastrous situation was miraculously turned around by God who immediately began to restore my failed organs.”
According to him, within one week, God healed him and he returned to Nigeria to continue with the 2019 campaign for his second term in office.
Wike also recalled that days leading the 2022 Peoples Democratic Party presidential campaign, his wife, Justice Eberechi Nyesom-Wike, called him from London that she had been diagnosed with cancer.
The former governor said he was devastated by the news and even contemplated leaving the presidential race, but his wife urged him not to, saying to the glory of God, she was eventually healed of cancer and her life preserved.
Governors, former governors, and several state and federal lawmakers were present at the occasion.