Ohanaeze Youth Council Rejects JAMB Resit, Demand Automatic 300 Marks For South-East Candidates

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has rejected the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s (JAMB) proposal to conduct a fresh Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for candidates affected by discrepancies in the recently released results.

This follows JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede’s admission that technical errors led to unusually low scores in the five South-East states and Lagos State.

In a firm response, the National President of the Council, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, said:
“We want to state unequivocally that our people will not accept any fresh examination. These candidates have already endured psychological distress due to JAMB’s incompetence.”

Okwu emphasized that affected students are not in the mental condition to sit for another examination and criticized the additional financial and security burdens that a resit would impose on families.

“Who will shoulder the cost of the resit?” he asked. “The same parents who are already facing severe economic hardship? What about the risks of traveling to exam centers in a nation plagued by insecurity?”

Rather than a resit, the Ohanaeze Youth Council is demanding that JAMB award a minimum score of 300 to all candidates affected by the error in the South-East.
“Igbos are intellectually gifted and many could have scored 300 and above. This whole saga appears to be a calculated attempt to marginalize our people and deny them access to education,” Okwu stated.

He further warned that failure to comply with this demand would lead to legal action against JAMB.
“If our demand is ignored, we are prepared to challenge JAMB in court. No amount of crocodile tears from the Registrar will absolve the board of responsibility,” he concluded.