Oby Ezekwesili, former minister of education, says the Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the education ministry were
anecdotal in their explanation of the unusual Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME) result.
The results from JAMB’s 2025 UTME were released on May 9.
An analysis indicated that more than 78 percent of
candidates scored less than 200 points out of the 400 maximum obtainable
points.
This spurred protests that questioned the overall integrity
of the examination process.
On Wednesday, Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB registrar, admitted that
mistakes made by one of JAMB’s service providers led to distorted results for
nearly 380,000 candidates in 157 centres across the Lagos and Owerri zone
(which includes the south-east states.
In a post on X, Ezekwesili berated authorities for not
immediately acting with humility by “carrying out an unbiased system check once
unusual trends emerged”.
“The Ministry of Education and JAMB were embarrassingly
anecdotal in their pejorative non-evidence-based explanation of the
significantly unusual results of candidates in the 5 South East States
predominantly,” her post reads.
“Technical matters must always be examined with
professionalism and that has sadly disappeared in the toxic atmosphere created
by incompetent and dishonest politicians and intellectuals who should know
better.”
The former education minister also shared X posts she made
in 2018 and 2023 on the exam body’s processes.
“If I were President and my Minister of Education concerned
herself with the ‘revenue & remittance’ of the Exam body- JAMB, rather than
fixing the: Integrity & Competence Testing of the Exam System, Process&
Infrastructure,” she wrote.
“I will immediately reassign her to Airport Toll Gate.”
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