In the midst of the ongoing controversy surrounding Miss Ejikeme Mmesoma’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has steadfastly maintained that her result is “patently fake.”
After being accused of forging her 2023 UTME result, Ejikeme vehemently denied the allegations.
However, JAMB’s spokesperson, Benjamin Fabian, released a statement on Tuesday reiterating the board’s stance.
According to the statement, JAMB has nullified Ejikeme’s 2023 UTME result and has consequently prohibited her from taking the examination for the next three years.
“In the meantime, the management of the Board, after considering the weighty infraction committed by Ms Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, and in line with its established procedures, has withdrawn her 2023 UTME result and also barred her from sitting the Board’s examination for the next three years,” the statement read.
The examination body also reassured Nigerians that its “system was neither tampered with nor compromised as the candidate simply falsified a copy of a result slip of a candidate named “Asimiyu Mariam Omobolanle”, who sat the UTME in 2021 and scored 138.”
“It is also instructive to note that the candidate, in her statement, has inadvertently revealed the rightful owner of the result she is parading when she pointed out that the QR code on the result slip showed the actual owner of the said result before she peddled a lie in an attempt to obfuscate the truth,” Benjamin added.