- FCT Minister Nyesom Wike has dismissed reports that he suffered a heart attack in London, clarifying that he only traveled abroad to rest.
- Speaking in Abuja, he described the rumours as false and joked that those spreading them would be the ones to suffer a heart attack.
FCT Minister Nyesom Wike has debunked claims that he suffered a heart attack in London.
Speaking at the flag-off of the Arterial Road N1 project in Abuja, Wike said he only traveled abroad to rest. He dismissed the rumours as false and joked that those spreading them would be the ones to suffer a heart attack.
Responding, Wike said: “Since I took this appointment as minister, I have never had time to travel out so I said let me go on holidays.
“Each time I travel, I travel with files and CofOs, so this time around I said I won’t travel with any file.
“So if the world will crumble let it crumble because one has to be alive before you satisfy all the people. You know this job we are doing, they have been waiting for you.
“The day you drop, they will announce some other person the next day so you must make sure while you’re working you also take time out and relax.
“So as I said let me travel and before I know it, I heard that they said they were sick, I hear they have heart attack. God will continue to help them to have heart attack.
“It is my prayer I will sign their condolences. It’s my prayer that very soon I will write a letter that we are sorry we loved him but take heart because it’s God that gives and God that has taken.
“You see the level of this country where we are, we play politics with everything. How somebody can sit down and write all kinds of things, where the person saw me I don’t know, the hospital you saw me I do not know and yet we are all happy reading it on social media.
“This is a country where somebody go on social media and say Mr President is a criminal and nothing will happen. You are lucky to have a president that believes in the rule of law, you are lucky and continue to be lucky.”
