BREAKING: Wike Poisoned, Liver, Kidney Affected

 Former Governor of Rivers State Nyesom Wike, has revealed how he was poisoned while holding sway as Rivers Chief Executive.

Wike, a two-term governor of Rivers State in a special Thanksgiving service on Sunday organised by his family at the St. Peters Deanery, Rumuepirikom, Obio-Akpor, revealed that he was poisoned at the secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in December 2018.

Wike revealed that the poison ravaged his internal organs, affecting his liver and kidneys and almost killed him but for God’s interventions.

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While narrating how he almost died of poisoning, 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 a day my former Chief of Staff was going to have Thanksgiving. I was to attend that Thanksgiving. 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 told the Deputy Governor to speak on my behalf. I thought it was over”.

He added that he was flown to a hospital in Beirut at 12 midnight, where doctors after running series of tests told him that his liver and kidney were all gone.

“I didn’t know I had been poisoned at our party’s secretariat”, he said adding that the doctors after some treatments returned and told him his organs had started working again.

Wike revealed that after about a week, the doctors discharged him, asking him to return home.

He revealed that he began to have trust issues as everybody became a suspect, even as he decided that he would not enter any party leader’s home during the course of his campaigns.