God’s intervention saved me
Former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, on Sunday, alleged that he was poisoned by party men with the intention to be killed but God spared him.
He said the attacked on his life occurred at the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, secretariat in 2018, in Abuja.
Wike said the poison almost damaged his liver and kidneys completely but for God’s intervention.
The former governor stated this during a special Thanksgiving service organised by his family at the St. Peters Deanery, Rumuepirikom, Obio-Akpor area of the state.
The former governor said it was an emergency intervention that saw him flown dead at night to Beirut , where the doctors informed his family of the damage to his liver and kidneys.
He said he was attended to immediately; his situation was normalized and his organs came back to life.
He said his failing health affected his second term re-election campaign program as he was in the hospital for two weeks.
The former Governor said the incident frightened him, and as a result of the terrible experience he decided not to visit party leaders in their homes during the campaign period for his second term re-elction.
Revealing how death was a whisker away, 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 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.
“But 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 treatments, returned and told me my organs had started working again.”
Nyesom Wike is the leader of the GOVERNOR 5, popularly known as G5, of the People’s Democratic Party extraction, who built alliance and rebelled against their party for fielding former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the party presidential flag bearer in the 2023 elections.
The group consists of Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), Samuel Ortom (Benue), Seyi Makinde (Oyo) and Nyesom Wike (Rivers).
According to the G5, their position, argument and confrontation against the leadership of the party stems from lack of fairness and equity – that a southern candidate should be the party’s presidential flag bearer. And that it isn’t fair to have a Muslim and a Fulani tribe rule Nigeria for eight years and another wanting to rule again.
In the course of the party trying to find a common ground to resolve the issues and bring about a lasting settlement, the G5 demanded for the resignation of the party Chairman, Prof Iyorcha Ayu as a compromise, who, according to them, is from the same northern region as the presidential candidate. THhe party leadership refused. As a result the political battle between the PDP and the G5 Governors escalated without redemption.
Nyesom Wike is a staunch supporter of the winner of the 2023 Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, now the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
He is never shy to openly declare that he worked against his party for APC’s victory. Accused by party men of anti-party, the former governor remains adamant. He says he will remain in the party against all odds.
