Wike reveals how he was poisoned at PDP secretariat and had to be flown abroad for treatment

FORMER Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike has revealed that he narrowly survived an assassination attempt in 2018 when members of his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) poisoned him and he had be flown to Lebanon for emergency treatment.

Speaking during a special thanksgiving service organised by his family at the St Peters Deanery, Rumuepirikom in the state yesterday, Governor Wike said he was poisoned at the PDP secretariat. He revealed that the poison affected his liver and kidneys and it almost killed him but for God’s intervention.

According to the former governor, he was flown to Beirut at midnight, where doctors informed him that his liver and kidneys were gone. However,  after attending to him, the doctors informed him that the organs were working once again.

Governor Wike said the doctors discharged him after about a week and asked him to return home, noting that he altered his itinerary during the campaign for his second term. He added that everybody became a suspect as he decided that he would not enter any party leader’s home during the course of his 2019 campaigns.

“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.

"However, 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 treatment, returned and told me my organs had started working again.”