Nyesom Wike, the immediate past governor of Rivers State, has claimed that he was poisoned at the secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and was flown abroad for treatment, adding that God saw him through the ordeal.

The former governor also boasted that despite the political gang-up against him, God made all those evil plots against him fail.

Wike spoke at the family thanksgiving service on Sunday organised in his honour at St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Rumuepirikom Deanery, of the Diocese of Niger Delta North.

The former governor explained that he cannot talk about his triumph in office as governor without attributing the victories to God.

He claimed that in 2018, he was poisoned at the campaign secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and experienced liver and kidney failure as diagnosed in a hospital in Beirut, Lebanon.

The former Rivers State governor said that on one fateful Sunday in December 2018, when he was due to attend the thanksgivings of his former Chief of Staff, Chief Emeka Woke, he was incapacitated to attend the event because he had been poisoned.

He stated, “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 I told my deputy governor to speak on my behalf.

“People didn’t know what was going on. After that banquet, by 12 midnight, I was taken out of the country because I thought it was over.

“When we got to Beirut, the doctors looked at me and I was looking at them. They were not telling me anything, they said we have to do many tests.”

He stated that the next morning the doctors returned and presented a gloomy report that his kidney and liver were no longer functioning.

” I never knew that I had been poisoned in our campaign secretariat. My intestinal were all black. The doctors did all they could do.

“But, through divine providence, what would have been a disastrous situation was miraculously turned around by God, who immediately began to restore his failed organs, ” Wike added.

According to him, within one week, God healed him and he was able to return to Nigeria to continue with the 2019 campaign for his second term in office.

Wike also said that days leading the 2022 Peoples Democratic Party presidential campaign, his wife, Hon. Justice Eberechi Suzzette Nyesom-Wike, called him from London that she had been diagnosed with cancer.

The former governor said he was devastated by the news and even contemplated leaving the presidential race, but his wife urged him not to, saying to the glory of God, she was eventually healed of cancer and her life preserved.

According to him, “God went further to grant him and the State a smooth political transition amidst gang up that was staged by the same people who promised to abide by the collective decision of Rivers elders over who becomes his successor.”

He said said because the right successor was chosen, he is enjoying peace.