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UTME Result: Mmesoma’s Age Possibly Changed, Asari Dokubo Makes Allegation
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UTME Result: Mmesoma’s Age Possibly Changed, Asari Dokubo Makes Allegation

by  Ridwan Adeola 2 min read
  • Former Niger Delta militant leader, Asari Dokubo, has questioned the age of Mmesoma Joy Ejikeme
  • Ejikeme, 19, has been accused by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Examination (JAMB) of falsifying her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result
  • Dokubo said Miss Ejikeme’s age might have been altered before she sat for the 2023 UTME in Anambra state

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Degema, Rivers state - Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, an Ijaw activist, on Thursday, July 6, said the age of the embattled candidate of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Examination (JAMB), Mmesoma Joy Ejikeme, might have been changed.

According to Dokubo, the alteration of Mmesoma’s age would have taken place prior to the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) 2023 dates.

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A prominent figure of the Ijaw ethnic group, Asari Dokubo, has said the age of embattled UTME candidate, Mmesoma Joy, might have been altered. Photo credit: Asari Dokubo
Source: Facebook

'Mmesoma’s age might have been altered', Dokubo

Vanguard reported that Dokubo claimed his children finished secondary school at 15 and 16 years old.

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The Niger Delta activist said while speaking on Facebook Live:

“I have actually checked the little girl’s details, and I observed that there is the possibility that her age was altered before she sat for the exam.
“If not, why will she be writing JAMB at 19 when my own children finished school between the ages of 15 and 16?”

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In a piece of related news, Legit.ng reported that Fabian Benjamin, the spokesperson of JAMB, revealed that the examination body has discovered the developer of the controversial computer software package which some dishonest Nigerians use to generate false Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results.

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Benjamin made this revelation while speaking on The Punch’s Facebook Live on Wednesday, July 5, monitored by Legit.ng.

“I can swear by anything”: JAMB makes fresh revelation, says Mmesoma’s father may be complicit

Legit.ng also reported that JAMB said from the look of things, it is “beginning to see” that Romanus Ejikeme, father of Mmesoma Ejikeme Joy, who was accused of forging her 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result by the examination body, “has a hand in it”.

According to JAMB, Romanus “is also in all the whole thing that is happening.”

Source: Legit.ng

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Ridwan Adeola (Current Affairs Editor) Ridwan Adeola Yusuf is a content creator with more than nine years of experience, He is also a Current Affairs Editor at Legit.ng. He holds a Higher National Diploma in Mass Communication from the Polytechnic Ibadan, Oyo State (2014). Ridwan previously worked at Africa Check, contributing to fact-checking research works within the organisation. He is an active member of the Academic Excellence Initiative (AEI). In March 2024, Ridwan completed the full Google News Initiative Lab workshop and his effort was recognised with a Certificate of Completion. Email: ridwan.adeola@corp.legit.ng.

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