The Ekiti State government has said that the seizure of the results of candidates who sat for the 2020 West African Examinations Council (WAEC) in Ekiti State has nothing to do with the state’s indebtedness to the examination body.
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The Commissioner for Information, Akin Omole, while dismissing the insinuations, clarified that the results were put on hold owing to computation mistakes made by WAEC and not because of debt.
Some parents and wards, who besieged their respective schools to collect the results released a few days ago, were disappointed as they were told that they were yet to be released.
The same disappointing scenario played out in some of the cybercafés (ICT centres) where the candidates had gone to check their results in Ado Ekiti metropolis.
WAEC on Monday released the results across the country through a well-publicised statement signed by its Head, National Office (HNO), Patrick Areghan.
The candidates and their parents got more incensed by the rumour flying around on social media that the results were withheld due to the government’s indebtedness to WAEC.
However, Omole explained further that the state government had been paying the WAEC fee of all students in public schools since the advent of Fayemi’s second term in 2018.
