Former Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike says he was a target of numerous political attacks, including a poisoning incident that caused severe liver and kidney failure.
Wike recounted the harrowing experience at a family thanksgiving held at St. Peter’s Anglican Church in the Rumuepirikom Deanery of the Diocese of Niger Delta North, on Sunday.
The former governor said he was poisoned at the campaign secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2018, leading to a health problem that was diagnosed during his hospitalisation in Beirut, Lebanon.
The former governor disclosed that the poisoning incident occurred in December 2018, on the day he was supposed to attend the thanksgiving ceremony of his former Chief of Staff, Emeka Woke.
According to him, the poisoning left him incapacitated and confined to his room.
In his words, “From that Sunday, 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 there and instructed my deputy governor to speak on my behalf.”
The severity of the situation became evident after the banquet, prompting Wike to be urgently flown out of the country to seek medical treatment. In Beirut, the doctors delivered a prognosis, revealing that his kidney and liver were no longer functioning.
Wike therefore noted that in a miraculous turn of events, divine intervention led to the restoration of his failed organs within a week and he was able to return to Nigeria to continue his second-term campaign in 2019.
