Despite the political gang up against him, former Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike says God made all wicked machinations against him fail.
Wike addressed during the Diocese of Niger Delta North’s family thanksgiving service at St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Rumuepirikom Deanery. He credited God for his triumphs as governor.
He remembered being poisoned in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign secretariat in 2018 and being hospitalised in Beirut, Lebanon, for liver and renal failure.
The former Rivers State governor revealed that he was poisoned on that fateful Sunday in December 2018 when he was supposed to attend his former Chief of Staff Emeka Woke’s thanksgivings.
I stayed in my room since Sunday. That was horrible, but those attending the January 1, 2019, State dinner will know I didn’t speak. I sat down and instructed my deputy governor to speak.
The public was unaware. After that dinner, I was whisked out of the country at midnight because I assumed it was finished. When we arrived in Beirut, the physicians and I stared at one other. They told me we had to take multiple tests.
He said the physicians returned the following morning with a grim prognosis that his kidney and liver were no longer working. At our campaign secretariat, I was poisoned. I had black intestines. Doctors did everything they could.”
He stated that by divine providence, God miraculously restored his failing organs.
He returned to Nigeria to campaign for a second term in 2019 after God cured him in a week.
Wike also recounted that his wife, Judge Eberechi, contacted him from London to tell him she had cancer. The former governor was heartbroken by the news and considered quitting the presidential run, but his wife persuaded him not to.
She was cured of cancer and saved by God, he added.
Wke also praised God for a seamless transfer despite the gang orchestrated by the same individuals who swore to abide by Rivers elders’ consensus choice on his successor. Wike says he feels at rest since he picked the proper successor.
Governor of Rivers State Siminalayi Fubara claimed he was part of Wike’s political family, which was assailed by political adversaries but failed to fulfil their goals.
Rt. Rev. Wisdom Ihunwo, Bishop of the Diocese of Niger Delta North of the Anglican Communion, reminded the assembly that no one could succeed without God.
