The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has asked the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to allocate 300 scores to all candidates from the South-East for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
TheNewsGuru recalls that the registrar of the examination body, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, admitted errors in the just-concluded exam during a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday.
According to Oloyede, 206,610 in 65 centres were affected in Lagos, and 92 centres in Owerri zone were affected, comprising 173,387 candidates in the five states of the South East.
The Jamb registrar added that the board had resolved to reschedule a fresh examination for the affected candidates to make up for the technical errors that undermined their scores in the recently released results.
Reacting, the National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, in a statement seen by TNG, faulted the resolution, stating the arrangement was unacceptable.
According to Nnabuike, it was a disservice for JAMB to subject the candidates to “another round of mental torture, stress and risk” for no faults of theirs.
Quoting him, “We want to state unequivocally that our people will not accept any fresh examination, having already been subjected to mental torture by JAMB.
“The candidates are not in the right frame of mind to undergo another examination, having faced mental torture ever since the fake results were announced.”
The Ohanaeze youth leader further demanded to know who would bear the cost of the fresh examination both in finance and stress, adding, “What of the risk of moving to the examination locations in a country ravaged by insecurity?”
The youth wing therefore demanded that JAMB allocate 300 score to all the South-East and Lagos state candidates affected “by its own error, not that of the candidates”.
The president continued, “Igbos are very brilliant people and could have made 300 and above. It was a deliberate design to punish and sabotage the people of the South-East, clearly to deny them education opportunities.
“Should JAMB fail to heed to our request, we shall not hesitate to drag them to court. No form of crocodile tears by the registrar will save the board.”