Former Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike has revealed how he was poisoned, allegedly, by his political opponents in 2019.
He did not mention those behind the act, but said he was saved by divine intervention by God who to thwarted the evil plot to kill him after he was poisoned at the People’s Democratic Party, secretariat four years ago.
The incident, he explained occured during the governorship electioneering campaign that year.
The immediate past Governor of Rivers state spoke on Sunday at a service organised in his honour at St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Rumuepirikom Deanery, of the Diocese of Niger Delta North.
He also recalled how God save his wife, Justice Eberechi Suzzette Nyesom-Wike, from death after she was diagnosed with cancer, few days to the 2023 PDP presidential primary, adding that he contemplated dropping his presidential ambition at a point due to his wife’s problem.
In all of these, the former governor who led five other People’s Democratic Party, PDP, governors to oppose the party’s presidential candidate in the February 25 presidential election, said God has made him triumphed over his enemies.
According to him, he was immediately flown out of the country to Lebanon, where the doctors confirmed that he had been poisoned.
Explaining how it happened, Wike said he could not attend the yearly state banquet usually organised every first day of the year due to the incident.
He said, “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.”
Stating further, the former governor said, “I never knew that I had been poisoned in our campaign secretariat. My intestinal were all black. The doctors did all they could do.
“But, through divine providence, what would have been a disastrous situation was miraculously turned around by God, who immediately began to restore his failed organs, ”
The controversial former governor alongside other rebel governors have been blamed for the PDP failure at the presidential poll.
The party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar may not have suffered defeat if the governors, who agitated for a southern president had worked for him, according to keen political watchers.
