Meanwhile, the Anambra State Government has revealed its eight-person panel to investigate the matter.
JAMB and the 19-year-old Miss Mmesoma have, within the last few days, engaged in claims and counterclaims over the authenticity of the 362 score claimed by the candidate.
Speaking to Channels Television on Wednesday morning, Miss Mmesoma narrated how she came by the two different scores of 362 and 249. The candidate also said that she saw 362 when she checked her result using the USSD code provided by JAMB.According to her, it was after this that she sent an SMS to JAMB through the JAMB student support system, “but they didn’t give a reply.”
She said: “It’s not my fault that I printed my result like that, and they said that I forged my result. It’s not fair to me.”
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