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
Sorry O!
That is US embassy for you.
Source: Punch
Source: Punch
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