The embattled Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, candidate, Mmesoma Ejikeme, has admitted scoring 249.
Mmesoma was reacting to claims that the feedback from JAMB showed she scored 249.
The 19-year-old had claimed to have earned JAMB’s highest score after her UTME result slip showed 362.
But, JAMB had faulted the result, stressing…..that she forged it.
The claims and counter-claims between Mmesoma and JAMB caused a major controversy across Nigeria.
Amid the controversy, the board insisted she forged the result on a template it stopped using in 2021.
Admitting that the first result was wrong, Mmesoma said she should not be blamed for the mixup.
The findings showing an aggregate of 362, among other messages, were delivered by the Mmesoma to the board’s automated telecoms system, according to JAMB’s spokesman Fabian Benjamin.
But in reaction, she said the only SMS she sent to JAMB was through its support system.
“That’s the only SMS I sent there. They didn’t reply. If they check their JAMB Support System, they would see that I sent a text message. They didn’t reply.”
She confirmed she used an Airtel line but not through the USSD code.
“The one I checked through the USSD code is the one of 360 that I saw,” she said.
In reaction to the claim that the feedback from JAMB showed her score as 249, she said, “Yes. After all was 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.
Watch the moment below:
