JAMB HIGHEST SCORE SAGA: MMESOMA FINALLY ACCEPTS SHE SCORED 249 BUT INSISTS 3 YEAR BAN UNFAIR AS “IT WASN’T HER FAULT”
Eventually, Mmesoma Ejikeme, the 19 year old student at the center of “JAMB highest score” controversy has admitted scoring 249 in the 2023 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.
She 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.
However, 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.
Featuring 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.”
She equally 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, their banning me, it is not fair,” she said.
