I was flown abroad after they poisoned me at PDP secretariat – Wike

Former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has narrated how he was nearly killed by poisoning in 2018.

He spoke on Sunday during a thanksgiving service at the St. Peters Anglican Church in the Obio-Akpor LGA of Rivers State.

Wike also said he escaped death twice during his time as governor of the state.

The former governor said after he was poisoned, he was hurriedly flown out of the country for medical treatment.

“I never knew that I had been poisoned in our party secretariat. My intestines were all black. The doctors did all they could do,” he 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 a day my former chief of staff was going to have thanksgiving. I was to attend that thanksgiving. 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 told the deputy governor to speak on my behalf. I thought it was over.”

Wike said after the presidential primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2022, one of the engines of the aircraft he boarded while travelling to Abuja exploded few minutes after take-off.
“Fifteen minutes of take off at the airforce base, we heard an explosion. They locked the cockpit. One engine was gone and the pilot said it was safer to turn back to Port Harcourt,” the ex-governor said.

“Before we landed, there were many ambulances and fire service trucks lined up. We landed safely by the Grace of God. I didn’t tell anybody.”

Wike said he kept the incidents secret to avoid frightening his supporters.

The former Rivers governor also explained why he supported Godswill Akpabio’s bid for president of the 10th Senate.

Wike said Akpabio supported him with N200 million when he was contesting for governor in 2014.