The West African Examination Council on Monday, 2nd November released the 2020 result.

Ekiti State Government on Wednesday doused the tension among candidates, parents, and education stakeholders in the state over the withheld 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination results by the West African Examination Council, assuring candidates that the results would be released this week.

Tension mounted in the state as candidates and their parents who besieged the schools and cybercafés to check the results for the examination realised that the results were being withheld by the examination council.

WAEC had in a statement on Monday announced the release of the results of the 2020 WASSCE.

It was learnt that parents became more agitated because it was rumoured that the state government owed the examination body several millions of naira being the free WAEC fee declared for all students in public schools by Governor Kayode Fayemi,

A parent said, “The government must have pity for these students who had to stay at home for months before the examination was written. They must please look for ways to sort out whatever caused this unwholesome development because many of the candidates will use the results for university admission. We plead and beg that the government must do this fast.”

The state Commissioner for Information, Mr Akin Omole, who debunked the allegation of the state’s indebtedness to WAEC, said the results were put on hold owing to an error in computation.

Omole said, “The seizure was caused by the mistakes made in some of the ways the results were computed. The issue of Ekiti owing money doesn’t arise, it was a blatant lie. The government immediately contacted WAEC and it tendered apologies to the state.

“We appeal to our candidates and parents not to be ruffled by this. The government is handling the issue with all seriousness. Going by what WAEC said, the results will be released either on Thursday or Friday this week,” the commissioner said.

The National Examinations Council has postponed the ongoing nationwide Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations indefinitely due to the current security challenges, occasion by the #EndSARS protests.

This was contained a statement signed by the Head of Information and Public Relations Division NECO, Azeez Sani, and made available to newsmen in Minna on Sunday.

Sani said the #EndSARS protests disrupted the smooth conduct of the examinations in some parts of the country.

He said, “The Governing Board of the National Examinations Council at its Special Meeting held on Thursday, 22nd October, 2020 reviewed the on-going 2020 SSCE (internal) nationwide. The Council had in a press release, dated 21st October 2020, informed the general public of rescheduling some papers of the 2020 on-going SSCE.

“In making this decision, the Board noted that due to these security challenges, some state governments imposed curfew and closed schools in order to safeguard lives and property;

In the circumstances, it has become difficult for the council to move examination materials across the country and students in the affected locations were unable to sit for the papers already scheduled in the examination time table.”

He said the governing board further resolved, that “when normalcy returns, the Council will continue with the conduct of the examinations in all States