July 05, (THEWILL) – The embattled Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) candidate, Mmesoma Ejikeme, has admitted she scored 249 in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The 19-year-old had claimed to have earned JAMB’s highest score after her UTME result slip showed 362. But, JAMB faulted the result, stressing that she forged it.
Amid the controversy, the board insisted she forged the result on a template it stopped using since 2021.
Speaking when she featured on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday, Mmesoma absolved herself of any wrongdoing.
Admitting that the first result was wrong, Mmesoma said she should not be blamed for the mixup.
She also faulted JAMB’s three-year ban on her, stressing that it was not her fault.
“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.
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