Nyesom Wike, a former governor of River State, said on Sunday that he had been poisoned in 2018 while running for a second term as governor at the PDP secretariat.
The former governor said that his liver and kidneys stopped functioning, and that it needed the intervention of God and medical professionals to save his life. He made this disclosure at a special Thanksgiving ceremony organized by his family at the St. Peters Deanery, Rumuepirikom, Obio-Akpor region of the state.
The former governor described how it all went down, claiming that after being transported to Beirut at midnight and learning that his liver and kidneys had failed, everyone in his vicinity was made a suspect.
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.”