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.
According to Vanguard 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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