..Says God saved him from failed liver, kidney
Ex-Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has made startling revelations of how he almost died after being poisoned at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secretariat.
Wike during a special Thanksgiving service organised by his family in his honour on Sunday at the St. Peters Deanery, Rumuepirikom in Obio-Akpor local government of the state, said that he was poisoned at the secretariat of the PDP in December 2018 which resulted in the failure of his liver and kidney.
The former Governor said that the poison almost destroyed his internal organs affecting his liver and kidneys and almost killed him but God quickly intervened.
Dignitaries at the programme included President Bola Tinubu who was represented by the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in attendance.
Others were the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Deputy Senate President, Senator Jibrin Barau, serving Governors, scores of senators, over 30 members of the House of Representatives, former governors, former ministers, royal fathers, captains of industries, the National Working Committee of the PDP among others.
Wike further revealed, “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. Since that Sunday I haven’t come 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 said.
According to Wike, he was flown to a hospital in Beirut at 12 midnight where doctors after running a 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 claimed, adding that the doctors after some treatments returned and told him his organs had started working again.
Wike further stated that doctors discharged him after about a week in the hospital in Beirut and asked him to return home, adding that he altered his itinerary during the campaigns for his second term.
He said in view of the sad development, everybody around him became a suspect as he decided that he would not enter any party leader’s home during the course of his campaigns.
Wike also recalled another pathetic scenario of God’s intervention in his life was when his wife called him during his presidential primary campaign and told him that she, Suzette Wike, had been diagnosed with cancer disease.
He said that he called the leaders in his campaign team including the G-5 governors that there was a problem and he was planning to quit the race.
According to him, after the primary when he was on a trip to Abuja in the company of his wife, he got information that a mysterious fire gutted his wife’s room and destroyed everything she had as a woman.
“Being a strong woman, my wife never showed it. But today my wife is hale and hearty. The cancer incident was the one I knew that God had done all for me”.
He also recalled that on another occasion, God saved him and three other leaders from a near plane crash.
He said while they were travelling to Abuja after the presidential primary, one of the engines of the aircraft exploded 15 minutes after take-off.
“15 minutes after takeoff at the Airforce base, we heard an explosion. They locked the cockpit. One engine was gone already,’ he said.
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