Following the concluded report of the investigation committee set up by the Anambra Governor, Professor Charles Soludo, over the controversial 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) score of Mmesoma Ejikeme, a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School, Nnewi, a former presidential aide, Remo Omokri, has called out prominent Nigerians who had accused JAMB of ethnic profiling to apologise to the examination body immediately.
Mr. Omkri had earlier warned that Mmesoma’s Jamb result should not be used to trigger ethnic and religious violence as happened in France after the shooting to death of 17-year-old Nahel M. by an officer during a traffic stop.
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP chieftain, noted that the manner in which prominent people like Oby Ezekwesili and others have made it about ethnicity when it was really about criminality could have set Nigeria on fire.
Omokri in a tweet on Saturday, said that after wasting time and money, the high-powered committee of Professors and PhD holders set up by the Anambra State Government to probe Mmesoma Ejikeme’s JAMB result still came to the conclusion that non-degree holders, and even illiterates reached in less than five minutes, which is that Mmesoma forged her results by herself, in a deliberately fraudulent manner. What a waste of state resources!
“Will all those who supported her and insulted people like me, and others: who from the get-go, pointed out this obvious fraud now apologise?
“Will all those who accused JAMB of pursuing an ethnic agenda to undermine the Igbo people of the Southeast now apologise to JAMB and Nigeria, and accept that Nigeria is indeed not a zoo, but a civilised country with strong institutions, like JAMB?
“And will we all admit that some parts of Nigeria have an unusually high tolerance for criminality, which should be addressed, otherwise, they will keep having higher crime incidents that exceed their population ratio.
“And will we also accept that Mmesoma was emboldened to do what she did because she knew her community and ethnicity have high tolerance for actions such as hers? Or will the headless mob continue on their insult spree, and learn no lessons?
“May ethnic bigots and irredentists, such as IPOBy Ezekwesili, and others like her not lead Nigeria to a conflagration.
“May God help us all learn the needed lessons from this saga of how we almost set our country on fire and could have ignited a Rwandan-like crisis over a liar who just wanted to gain financial and social relevance.”
