Nyesom Wike, the former Governor of Rivers State, disclosed on Sunday that he was poisoned at the secretariat of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Wike stated this during a special Thanksgiving service organized by his family at the St. Peters Deanery, Rumuepirikom, in the Obio-Akpor area of the state.
The former governor stated that in 2018, he was poisoned at the PDP secretariat, which necessitated him flying to Beirut at midnight, where doctors informed him that his liver and kidneys were damaged.
According to him, after the doctors attended to him, they informed him that the organs were still functional.
Noting how he altered his itinerary in the course of his second term campaign as a result of his poisoning, Wike stated that he was discharged and asked to go home after a week.
As a result, the former governor said he became suspicious of everybody, which made him avoid entering the home of any party leader during his campaign.
Narrating his ordeal, Wike said: “God was in charge, everybody who knew how we came to power in 2015, knew it was turbulent.
“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”.
The former Governor was however thankful to God that he accomplished landmark projects in the state during his reign as Governor.
