Ayobami Suberu, the Branch Controller of the West Africa Examination Council overseeing Ogun State, has criticized an online media story claiming that some public school pupils’ test scores were suppressed because of their debt.
Suberu revealed this to reporters on Tuesday, according to a statement from the Chief Press Secretary to the governor of Ogun State, Lekan Adeniran.
According to the exam body, results for 1,685,889 candidates—or 93.9%—were made public on Monday.
Suberu said that the Ogun State Government had no obligation to the Council and called the report “mischievous and unbalanced.”
The branch controller clarified that the reason the impacted students’ results were still pending was due to a technical issue that is being investigated for a prompt resolution.
As he had promised that the findings would be made public before Tuesday’s workday ended, he stated that there has been continuous communication in this respect between the branch and the Head of the Council’s Test Administration Division.
Let me state unequivocally that Ogun State owes WAEC nothing,” he stated. When a senior official from the Ogun State Ministry of Education called me earlier about the news, I explained that nothing of the kind had occurred and that the wicked and unbalanced report about indebtedness was the result of mischief.
“How is it possible for a reporter to publish an article without first learning WAEC’s perspective? It is unethical to do it. In actuality, there was a technical hiccup that prevented those findings from being disclosed, but we are working nonstop to fix it so that it can be released on Tuesday.
“We are receiving positive responses regarding the issue since we have activated communication with the Head of the Test Administration Division.” he stated.
