Former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has revealed that he was poisoned at the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) campaign secretariat in 2018.
Wike shared his ordeal during his family Thanksgiving service held at St Peter’s Anglican Church, Rumuepirikom Deanery in Rivers State on Sunday.
The Former Rivers Governor recounted how he was flown to Beirut, Lebanon after the incident and was informed by doctors that his liver and kidney had been damaged.
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He said that miraculously his organs were restored and began functioning again.
The former governor expressed gratitude to God for seeing him through the ordeal, stressing that despite the political opposition he faced, he always emerged victorious with the help of God.
He said;
“In December 2018, that day was the day my former Chief of Staff was going to have Thanksgiving. And I was to attend that Thanksgiving on a Sunday. From that Sunday, I never came down from my room. It was bad.
“There are words I don’t want to use so that it does not look somehow 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 told my Deputy Governor to speak on my behalf. People didn’t know what was going on. After that banquet, 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.
“They came back the next morning and they said, ‘Look, it was bad’. My kidney had gone. My liver had gone and they (doctors) were looking at me.
”I never knew that I had been poisoned in our campaign secretariat. My intestinal (were) all black.
“So, the doctors did all they could do. The next day they came back, they said, ‘What is happening to you? They said everything is turning around.’
“My liver is functioning now. My kidney is functioning. To the glory of God, after about one week, they said I can now go.”
