The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has praised Professor Ishaq Oloyede, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Registrar, for his transparency and openness regarding the 2025 UTME result controversy.
More than 1.5 million of the 1.9 million candidates who took the 2025 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination (UTME) scored lower than 200, according to the results that were just made public by JAMB.
Prof. Oloyede acknowledged that the exam authority made errors that impacted the scores of more than 300,000 students after the public expressed outrage over the contentious findings.
Oloyede who shed tears as he stated that “technical glitches” were the source of the issue, which impacted 92 centres in the southeast region (173,387 applicants) and 65 sites in Lagos (206,610 candidates).
Another uproar followed his announcement, with many Nigerians denouncing JAMB and urging the Federal Government to abolish the testing organisation.
In a statement in response to the controversy, Peter Obi praised Oloyede for his “open admission of fault and the expression of deep remorse.”
Peter Obi praised JAMB for its prompt action and readiness to acknowledge its mistakes in the statement “Let’s not let Glitches Become a National Crisis.”
The statement reads in part: “I recently watched the heartfelt press conference delivered by the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, in which he acknowledged that technical glitches had affected the recently released JAMB results, impacting 379,997 candidates. His open admission of fault and deep remorse stand out as a rare but commendable display of accountability in our public institutions.
‘But it raises a very concerning issue on glitches and the grave havoc it’s creating in our country, even in critical institutions like JAMB. While JAMB’s swift response and willingness to own up to its shortcomings are worthy of recognition, the incident has brought to light a far more troubling reality: the persistent fragility of our institutional systems.”
All exam organisations and institutions similar to theirs were encouraged by the Peter Obi to “adopt comprehensive quality assurance frameworks” that include “rigorous testing and constant auditing of technical infrastructure.”
In an effort to rebuild public trust, he also urged open and honest communication with candidates and interested parties, as well as the swift handling of any problems that may arise.
“There must be no room for further glitches — not in JAMB, not in any arm of government. The cost of repeated failure is simply too high,” Peter Obi noted.
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