Mmesoma Ejikeme’s father, Romanus Ejikeme, claims he is unaware of where his daughter enrolled for the unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME), for which she is accused of fabricating results in 2023.
Ms Mmesoma may have been the victim of con artists, according to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), or she may have been a member of a “high-level syndicate” that produced phoney UTME results.
Yet in an attempt to solve the enigma surrounding the situation, PREMIUM TIMES asked Mr. Ejikeme where his daughter enrolled for the test. The commercial biker and singer said that only Miss Mmesoma could reveal where her registration was made.
But Mr. Ejikeme said, “I paid for her registration, and I can verify that she cannot fabricate any outcome.”
Background
Ms Mmesoma’s statement that she received the best score in the 2023 UTME was met with widespread celebration and praise from far and wide, even as the Anambra State Government and a corporate entity officially declared their support for her.
Nevertheless, the testing authority said every applicant got 360 in its exams for the year after a government probe into JAMB’s assertion.
JAMB, which revealed the names of the top 10 test takers on Sunday, vehemently asserted that Ms Mmesoma fabricated her exam results and that con artists may have deceived her without her knowledge.
The agency reported the candidate’s test score as 249 and said that the tampered-with copy of the notice of the result she showed in a video she recorded proved that the 2023 results of the applicants were intended to be presented differently.
Nonetheless, the applicant also insisted on printing the result from JAMB’s website. She continued by saying that the SMS she got from the board, which was from JAMB, also said that she had a score of 362.
Earlier on Tuesday, JAMB said that the candidate’s ostensibly legitimate results had been withdrawn and that she had been disqualified from the UTME for the next three years.
The father says
But when PREMIUM TIMES called Mr. Ejikeme on Tuesday, he said that his daughter had never falsified any results and couldn’t do so, despite what JAMB had claimed.
From kindergarten, his daughter and her brothers, he said, had consistently outperformed the rest of their class.
