Nigeria’s former Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has recommended a more lenient approach to handling the case of the forgery of UTME scores by Ejikeme Mmesoma.
The former Senior Spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate noted that Mmesoma is a brilliant child that could still have gained admission into the university of her choice going by her actual result.
Keyamo added that the student be allowed admission into the university considering she scored a good enough cut-off mark to study her chosen course.
He however noted that she be made to undergo counseling in addition to a written apology to JAMB.
Taking to his Twitter page on Saturday, the Senior Advocate of Nigeria said: “I deliberately waited for the end of this investigation before commenting on this unfortunate case of our daughter, Mmesoma Ejikeme.
She’s a brilliant girl, judging by her actual score of 249. The nation should be careful not to destroy her. What she needs is counselling, correction and guidance. She obviously did not know the weight and gravity of what she was doing. As teenagers, most of us made juvenile mistakes that never came to light.
The parents should encourage her to do a public apology to JAMB, to her family and to Nigerians after which she should be allowed to get her admission based on her actual scores. Anyone still pushing other narratives over this issue is not helping her and her family.
It is time to close this very unfortunate chapter and move on. This is my plea.