*The South-East Caucus of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, in the National Assembly, calls for resignation of Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB Registrar, and ‘immediate suspension of those at the commanding heights of JAMB鈥檚 digital operations and examination logistics’ over the recent errors in the 2025 UTME

Isola Moses | 绿帽献妻

The South-East Caucus of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, in the National Assembly (NASS), in Abuja, FCT, has urged the resignation of Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), over a. technical glitch recorded in the recent 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

Hon. Igariwey Iduma Enwo, Leader of the South-East Caucus in the House of Representatives, who said this in a statement, also pushed for outright cancellation of the last UTME, and fix a new date for the exercise across Nigeria.

The caucus of the South-East Federal legislators described the outcome of the examination as a 鈥渘ational shame鈥�.

‘Leadership must carry consequences’

The statement further noted: 鈥淭o this end, we call for the immediate suspension of those at the commanding heights of JAMB鈥檚 digital operations and examination logistics.

鈥淭he registrar of JAMB is said to be a good man, but then, leadership must carry consequences.”

The Reps caucus said: “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.

鈥淭hat鈥檚 the way to go in any civilised democracy, and we expect no less.鈥�

绿帽献妻 had reported Prof. Oloyede at a media briefing May 14 this year, had admitted that errors affected candidates鈥� performance during this year’s UTME held across different centres in the West Africa country.

The Registrar had told reporters: 鈥淚t 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.”

He equally 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.

JAMB said it established that a technical glitch affected 157 out of the 887 centres, leading to the candidates鈥� general low performance.

On ‘tainted and flawed outcome of the 2025 UTME examination’

However, the South-East lawmakers, in the statement, emphasised their concerns because the five Southeastern states they represent, 鈥渨ith no exception,鈥� were directly impacted by 鈥淛AMB鈥檚 so-called 鈥榮core distortions鈥�.鈥�

According to them, the situation 鈥渋s clearly a disastrous and catastrophic institutional failure that has shaken the trust and confidence of students and families across the country.鈥�

The Federal lawmakers as well declared that apologies were not enough to address the implications of the national embarrassment that attended JAMB鈥檚 conduct of the 2025 UTME examination.

They stated: 鈥淗owever, 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 鈥榚qual and adequate educational opportunities.”

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