A former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has revealed that he was critically ill in January 2019.
Wike made the revelation the family thanksgiving service held in his honor on Sunday.
He disclosed that he was supposed to speak at the 2019 January 1st state banquet but did not. Instead, his deputy governor spoke on his behalf.
The former governor stated further that many people were not aware of what was going on at that time.
He said “in December 2019, that day was the day my former chief of staff was going to have his Thanksgiving, and I was to attend that Thanksgiving on a Sunday.
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“From that Sunday on, I never came down from my room. It was bad. There are words I don’t want to use so that it does not look somehow, 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, but after that banquet, at midnight, I was taking myself out of the country because I thought it was over.”
