Mmesoma Ejikeme, the embattled candidate of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has admitted a new score sent to her by the Board as 249 in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
During Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday, Mmesoma said she should not be blamed for the mixup.
The Anambra pupil had claimed to have earned JAMB’s highest score after her UTME result slip showed 362, a score faulted by JAMB emphasising she manipulated it.
The controversy in the JAMB score generated a lot of mixed reactions on social media in Nigeria with JAMB insisting she forged the result on a template it stopped using in 2021.
Mmesoma, while admitting that the first result was wrong, said she should not be blamed for the mixup. “After all said and done, I now saw that I got 249.
“I sent them a text message there to know what really happened — the JAMB Support System. If they go to their system, they will see it there.”
“It’s not my fault that I printed my result like that, and they said that I forged my result. It’s not my fault. So, them banning it is not fair,” she said.
Follow us for more stories…
Author
