Mmesoma Ejikeme, a student at the Anglican Girls Secondary School in Nnewi, Anambra State, has provided an explanation of how she achieved her outstanding score of 362 on the UTME in 2023.
Ejikeme refuted claims made by JAMB that she intentionally tampered with her UTME results in order to obtain a N3 million scholarship from Innoson Motors.
Ejikeme disclosed that after the exams earlier this year, she checked her UTME result on the JAMB portal rather than going to any computer centers.
On Wednesday, July 5, she telephoned Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily to dispute the assertions made by JAMB spokesman Fabian Benjamin on Sunday, July 2.
The 19-year-old student stated in an interview:
“You have to register on the JAMB portal with your email address and number; I went to [the] JAMB portal. On that JAMB portal, I tried to get my result; they redirected me to another server.”
“That’s where I entered my reg number, and when I checked the result, that was what I got there and downloaded it. I didn’t go to any computer centre.”
When asked if she was the only one who printed the outdated UTME result sheet, she said she had not seen anyone with a similar copy.
Ejikeme said;
“You know phones now, if you want to check, you have the reg number. That’s the main thing you use in downloading your [results]. It’s not the hard copy that I’m talking of.”
Romanus Ejikeme, Mmesoma’s father, also confirmed that he did not accompany his daughter to any business or computer centre to print out her UTME result.