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. Vanguard reports that, Blessing and her footballer husband,
planned to travel to Los Angeles where the double sprint 2014 Commonwealth
Games gold medallist is based. But her husband
was denied a visa, something that left Blessing distraught and confused.
Blessing 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 and she 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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