The US embassy in Abuja has rocked the boat for African sprint queen, Blessing
Okagbare who recently got married to her heart-throb Igho Otegheri.
Okagbare and her footballer husband,
planned to travel to Los Angeles where the double sprint 2014 Commonwealth
Games gold medallist is based. But Otegheri was denied a visa, something that
left Okagbare distraught and confused. Okagbare trains with American coach,
John Smith in Los Angles and was hoping that her husband who won four caps with
the Super Eagles will be around at her weakest moments. Okabgare is billed to
resume training for the next years World Championships in Beijing China.
“I feel so bad that America Embassy
would turn down the visa request by my husband to travel with me to Los
Angeles.
“I have resumed training for the
season and I have to go back to my base (Los Angeles) with my husband so that I
can concentrate.
“I have sent copies of my documents,
including my Resident Permit in Los Angeles to them so as to facilitate my
husband’s traveling with me to the States, but they refused. Help me appeal to
them to grant him visa because it won’t be easy for me to shuttle between
Nigeria and the States every time.
“I have to concentrate on my
training and the only way to do so is to have my husband with me in the States.
I have been so sad since my husband returned from Abuja with this bad news.
They have to do something about it,” she lamented
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