Former Minister of Education Oby Ezekwesili has criticised the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) over the error that affected the 2025 UTME results.
Recall that JAMB Registrar Ishaq Oloyede, during a press conference, apologised for errors in UTME results and announced that affected students would retake the exams.
Ezekwesili, in a post shared on the X platform on Thursday, asked why JAMB did not address earlier complaints with humility and prompt investigation.
“Why could the authorities not have immediately acted with humility and done an unbiased and swift system check once unusual trends emerged instead of immediately impugning citizens who expressed concern?” she asked.
She also criticised JAMB’s handling of unusual results in the South East States, saying that technical matters require professionalism.
Ezekwesili shared screenshots of her 2018 and 2023 tweets, including one where she called for the redeployment of a former Minister of Education and another where she suggested an independent tech investigation into the controversy surrounding a 2023 UTME candidate.
“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, I would immediately REASSIGN her to Airport Toll Gate,” Ezekwesili said in one of her posts.
