2025 UTME: Resign Now- South-East Reps Tell Prof. Oloyede
By: Olusegun Ajileye
South-East Caucus of the 10th House of Representatives in Nigeria has told the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, profIshaq Oloyede, to resign following the technical anomaly recorded in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
It also called for the examination to be completely cancelled and fix new date for the exercise across the country.
In a statement signed by the caucus leader, Igariwey Iduma Enwo, the lawmakers described the examination’s outcome as a “national shame.”
“The registrar of JAMB is said to be a good man, but then, leadership must carry consequences. We, therefore, call on the Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, to do the needful by resigning his appointment to pave the way for a thorough examination and remediation of the root causes of this national shame”
Professor Oloyede had earlier admitted during a press briefing on May 14 that errors affected candidates’ performance during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, which was held across different centers in the country.
He also announced that about 379,997 candidates would retake the examination, following widespread complaints of technical glitches, unusually low scores, and alleged irregularities in the questions and the answers during the exercise.
JAMB said it established that a technical glitch affected 157 out of the 887 centers, leading to the candidates’ general low performance.
But the South-East lawmakers said they were concerned because the five southeastern states they represent, “with no exception,” were directly impacted by JAMB’s so-called score distortions.
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According to them, the situation “is clearly a disastrous and catastrophic institutional failure that has shaken the trust and confidence of students and families across the country”.
The lawmakers also said apologies were not enough to address the implications of the national embarrassment that attended JAMB’s conduct of the 2025 UTME examination.
