The South-East Caucus of the 10th House of Representatives has called for the resignation of the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Ishaq Oloyede, over the technical glitch recorded in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
The lawmakers also demanded that the examination be completely cancelled and a new date fixed for the exercise across the country.
In a statement signed by the caucus leader, Igariwey Enwo, the lawmakers described the examination’s outcome as a “national shame.”
They said, “To this end, we call for the immediate suspension of those at the commanding heights of JAMB’s digital operations and examination logistics.”
The lawmakers added, “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.
”That’s the way to go in any civilised democracy, and we expect no less.”
Oloyede had admitted during a press briefing on May 14 that errors affected candidates’ performance during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
He said, “It is our culture to admit errors because we know that in spite of the best of our efforts, we are human; we are not perfect.”
JAMB 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.
The South-East lawmakers expressed concern that the five southeastern states they represent, “with no exception,” were directly impacted by “JAMB’s so-called ‘score distortions’.”
They described the situation as “clearly a disastrous and catastrophic institutional failure that has shaken the trust and confidence of students and families across the country.”
The lawmakers added that apologies were not enough to address the implications of the national embarrassment that attended JAMB’s conduct of the 2025 UTME examination.
They said, “However, for the thousands of students across the five South Eastern states of Nigeria, the tainted and flawed outcome of the 2025 UTME examination has clearly stripped and denied them of any ‘equal and adequate educational opportunities’.”
