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Osita Chidoka, former minister of aviation, has come under fire on Twitter over his post on the forgery allegation against Ejikeme Mmesoma. 

Mmesoma has been in the news over claim that she manipulated her UTME result.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) had said the student “actually got 249 in the exam and not 362” as widely assumed.

The Anambra pupil took the exam at Nkemefuna Foundation (Thomas Chidoka Centre) owned by Chidoka.

Mmesoma initially dismissed the forgery allegation but later admitted that JAMB notified her that she got 249 in the exam.

On Wednesday, Chidoka backed the exam body’s stance on the matter and asked Mmesoma to “come clean” on her result.

The ex-minister said he became suspicious immediately he saw Mmesoma’s result due to some “discrepancies”.

He also said the “denigration of JAMB” and “ethnic slant” of the issue reflects “the general level of distrust in our national institutions”.

But a lot Nigerians disagreed with his position in the comment section of the post.

Some Twitter users argued that his post was only aimed at protecting his business amid the controversy.

A few others, however, supported his post.

“Typical business man talking to protect his own business with Jamb,” a user wrote.

Below are reactions to his post:

You're Just defending your center hence this nonsense you put up here. Reading this on FB got me even more angry. An institution their staff said snake swallowed money and you still take them serious. Nigeria is lawless place where anything can happen. Jamb I don't believe u

— Samuel Okechukwu (@samuelIfea) July 5, 2023

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God bless u, the first and only citizen from igbo extraction to say a neutral truth without playing a victim I hope madam @obyezeks can learn to be a nationalist like this role model,rather than sock herself in tribal river approach to all issues. God bless u again my bro

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— Donnazzy (@Donnazzy12) July 6, 2023

Osita is defending his livelihood. You didn't write epistle when a snake swallowed money in JAMB office.

— Duke of Uyo. (Gentle Thug) (@LuisBaci1) July 5, 2023

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Now. ur main interest here is just to exonerate your centre of any complications, maybe a condition from Jamb to continue using your centre.
Assuming the result was fake, who are her collaborators? Are they within or outside JAMB? is that not part of what Nigerians want to know?

— Ozo Nna Nyere Nwa (@nwa_anambra) July 5, 2023

I didn't expect less from a man whose mean of livelihood was at stake.

— Hugo Briggs (@MACBRIGGS) July 5, 2023

Mr. Chidoka, if JAMB threatened you to say this shame on you. If not, good luck.

However, Mmesoma is only 19yr old. I find it hard to believe she can infiltrate the JAMB website. Could it be that JAMB uploaded the wrong results but is trying to save face?

— LEGIT (Ph.D) (@theofficial_p) July 6, 2023

Seems like you’re subtly campaigning for a federal appointment. In all you’ve said, you’ve prejudged her guilty without an independent forensic examination and report on the portal and it’s backend from which she claimed she printed the result from. I pity those you lead.

— 2fingaz (@C0llab0) July 6, 2023

This narrative has an interest to protect – it has a reputation Risk at stake as much as JAMB. I am therefore not swayed by this narrative or JAMB’s until the outcome of an investigation by an independent entity without an interest or stake in the outcome.

— Emmanuel Odileke (@EmmanuelOdileke) July 6, 2023

The bigger question is, who forged the result mmesoma is parading?

Who printed it and gave it her?

Was she aware that she was parading a fake result?

If yes, what was her motive?

— Dumebi (@chidumebi) July 5, 2023

Well, done. Osita Chidoka.

Dear @obyezeks, If only you can apologize to @JAMBHQ and Nigerians for misleading the public on a clear case of forgery. I hope the @PoliceNG can arrest Nmesoma Ejikeme and arraign her in court as soon as possible.

— Olatunji O.R (@olatunji1080) July 6, 2023

JAMB must have threatened to close Osita Chidoka’s CBT center for him to have spoken so glowingly about JAMB, almost sounding like a shareholder of JAMB.

He gave everything away by solely defending JAMB on this & maligning a little girl (Mmesoma) with “come clean.”

Calling for…

— Uche (@ubig1) July 6, 2023