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UTME 2025: NNPP Chieftain, Ajadi Descends On JAMB Management Over Mass Failure …Says Blaming It On System Failure Is Embarrassing
A South West Chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, (NNPP), Ambassador Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo has descended on the management of the Joint Admission And Matriculation Board, (JAMB) over the handling of this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, ( UTME), saying that they are not fit to occupy the offices they are holding.
It could be recalled that there were reports of a candidate who scored 150 in the Joint Matriculation examinations, but days after the examination, he checked it again following public outcry and found out that his mark had been reduced to 120.
Also, at Odogunyan in Ikorodu Area of Lagos State, one Faith, 19 years old, killed herself with poison. She had scored 190 and could not understand the reason having read day and night.
However, on Wednesday, JAMB acknowledged discrepancies in the results of some candidates who took the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME).
JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, addressed the findings, and apologised for the errors and took full responsibility for the anomalies.
He announced that candidates from 157 out of 882 examination centers would be given a chance to retake the test, with the rescheduled exams starting on Friday, 16 May 2025.
Ajadi, in a statement on Friday, condemned the alleged shoddy conduct of the examination, which is the only avenue for millions of students to enter universities, polytechnics and colleges of education.
Ajadi said that the excuse byJAMB Registrar and his apology cannot save those who have died and millions of students whose future are being destroyed, noting that rescheduling resits for the affected students within a short time is not the best way for students to prepare for examination.
He called on the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Education, to institute a probe of the activities of JAMB, which led to the recent embarrassment, saying those found culpable should be punished.
According to him, “The recent admission of errors by JAMB in the conduct of this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, ( UTME) is an embarrassment to the nation. JAMB has, through its inefficiency, caused sorrow for families, who lost their loved ones as a result of frustration in the recent conduct of exam.
“While I sympathise with the families who lost their loved ones and millions whose children’s future have been trampled upon, I called on the government to get to the root of the matter.
“The government should also consider a means of decentralising the matriculation examination in the country as it seems that JAMB is overburdened. The resit examination should not be rushed. JAMB should give more time to avoid similar mistakes.”
—Kunle Bakare
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