Senator Shehu Sanni has compared the forgery act of Anambra-based girl, Mmesoma Ejikeme, to flying a plane between warring Ukraine and Russia.
This is not because of the gravity of the offence – she inflated her Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination – but because of ethnic issues, according to the politician.
In his view, Mmesoma’s case became fierily controversial because she is from the South-East, saying it would not have been so if she was from the middle belt.
He argues in a post:
The Girl forged UTME result. The commentaries for and against her are more of the fall out of the 2023 election than just forgery. For most people talking, their tongues are about the forgery but their hearts are politics. The Girl committed an offence at a time when people are looking for a reason to keep the flames of verbal war alight. The Girl flew a helicopter in between the Border of Ukraine and Russia.
If the girl is from Plateau or Niger, it wouldn’t have been as hot as this.
A woman from Bauchi allegedly stabbed her husband to death. No one seems interested. If the woman is from the west and the husband is from the east or vice versa, the internet would have been on fire by now.
Most Nigerians are now wearing ethno religious and political sunglasses; everything is viewed from the perspective of that lenses. We are likely going to live like this for a very long time.’
