One of Nigeria best sprinter, Blessing Okagbare, who tied the knot with her heart-throb, into Otegheri on November 8 has been denied precious honeymoon time by the U.S embassy, Reports reaching 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. Blessing told Vanguard:
“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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