It was a beautiful sight to behold as a physically challenged lady got married to the love of her life. It was not a regular wedding but, by all standards, a unique one, as the bride sat in her wheelchair with her bridesmaids also in wheelchairs, The Sun reports.
The unique nature of the wedding was the fact that it was an “all-wheelchair affair.” The bride and all her bridesmaids stormed the venue on December 2, 2019, in wheelchairs! That is the story of Lois Auta, a Nigerian activist.
The bride glowed as she sat in her wheelchair with pride beside her groom. The numerous bridesmaids at the occasion also sat in wheelchairs in the lovely photos that flooded social media.
“I was disabled by polio and enabled by positivity. “I have 99 abilities in me and one disability” has always been Lois Auta’s slogan. This came to reality when he got married amid pomp and pageantry to her heartthrob, Innocent Udonkanta.
While Udonkanta hails from Abak, Akwa Ibom State, and works with the Disabled People Leadership Initiative, Auta hails from Kagoro, Kaura Local Government of Kaduna State. She was only two years old when she was struck by poliomyelitis.
The 39-year-old, who said she had given up on marriage, got married to her campaign manager, Udonkanta. Not only did she have a long and colourful bridal train, but the outstanding thing about her train was that her bridesmaids all turned up in wheelchairs dressed in the colors of the day, teal green and orange.
Auta said the choice of having all bridesmaids in wheelchairs was deliberate:
“I’m trying to change the narratives and wrong perception that women with disabilities are not worth marrying, which is not true.” We are lovable, we are productive, we are good wives, we are good mothers, and we are capable of being the best home handlers of anyone. Disability does not affect sexuality, and true love knows no disability.”
It started in July 2018 when a friend introduced Udonkanta to her as a campaign manager when she ran for the House of Representatives in the 2019 elections: “In the course of campaign activities, Mr. Innocent proposed, and here we are today.
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