Ebonyi state member of the House of Representatives representing Edda/Afikpo North constituency, in Ebonyi state, Iduma Igariwey, has called for the the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME) to be cancelled following glitch that caused a lot of issues.
Appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, Igariwe described the incident as ‘catastrophic institutional failure’ stating that JAMB has lost its integrity.
The south-east caucus member recounted how a lot of students could not get to retake their examination after some centres were rescheduled after the glitch.
JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede had come out to clarify that the 2025 UTMe mass failure was due to a technical glitch and human error in the system. This led to his questioning and different people seeking his resignation. Oluyede later apologized stating that no one is perfect.
Subsequently, in an X post on the board’s official page, it stated that “Man Proposes, God proposes” noting that affected candidates were to retake their exams in the following two days.
Read: JAMB Glitch Affected Centres’ Candidates to Resit Exam
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the one time president-general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo said;
“The whole thing has lost its integrity. It has lost its fairness. People who took the time and prepared for exams were no longer in a position to take those exams.
“What we mainly did was to say these exams just must be done the proper way, the right way. So, that’s why we are saying that the exam has to be cancelled, so that the right thing is done in the first place. Because we believe that JAMB cannot just come out and paper over an examination and say they have gone on with the exam.
“If you recall, you see that we were very restrained in taking a decision. The caucus reacted to what Professor Ishaq (Oloyode) told Nigerians on the 14th of May.
“He admitted to what we have described as a catastrophic institutional failure, where nearly 400,000 students who took exams in April were asked to come and re-sit those exams. That has never happened in the history of this country. And I’m sure it came as a shock to Nigerians.
“We all got reports from our various constituencies. A lot of students could not make it to the examination halls. So a lot of people could not sit for those resit exams. And that was our major concern.
“So JAMB cannot just, after two days, set another set of exams. You haven’t even told Nigerians that you have corrected whatever led to the initial problem. People are calling for an investigation. People are calling for an examination of what happened. And then you have set those exams right immediately again.”
