Miss Ejikeme Mmesoma, the student of Anglican Girls Secondary School, Nnewi, in Anambra State, who controversially claimed to be the highest scorer of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), has finally apologized to the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) over the alleged forgery of her UTME result.

Mmesoma tendered her apology when she appeared before an ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives investigating the alleged forgery of results on Wednesday.

Having been banned by the board for contriving her result, Ejikeme pleaded for clemency for the ban imposed on her to be lifted, saying, “I feel a debt of pain for letting you down.”

In the early part of this month, Mmesoma and JAMB were caught in a web of back-and-forth accusations, arousing controversies over the authenticity of her result and score.

While she paraded herself as the highest scorer of the year’s UTME exam with an aggregate score of 362, JAMB, providing the public with watertight evidence, insisted her result was fake, stating she scored 249.

But in a twist of events, and to the awe of many Nigerians, Mmesoma accepted before the Panel of Inquiry set up by the Anambra State Government to investigate the matter that she forged her result.