Mmesoma Ejikeme, the embattled Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, candidate, has confessed scoring 249.
Mmesoma was responding to rumors that her JAMB results revealed she got 249.
After her UTME result slip indicated 362, the 19-year-old claimed to have scored JAMB’s highest score.
However, JAMB had criticized the outcome, claiming that she had fabricated it.
Mmesoma’s and JAMB’s statements and counter-claims sparked widespread outrage in Nigeria.
In the midst of the dispute, the board stated she faked the result using a template it no longer used in 2021.
Mmesoma admitted that the original outcome was incorrect, but she refused to blame herself for the blunder.
While on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday, Mmesoma said: “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.”
Mmesoma also faulted JAMB’s three-year ban on her, stressing that it was not her fault.
“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.
