Peter Obi, the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, has commended the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, for demonstrating transparency and accountability over the recent UTME result controversy.
The 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results showed that over 1.5 million of the 1.9 million candidates scored below 200. Amid widespread criticism, Prof. Oloyede admitted that technical glitches affected the results of nearly 380,000 candidates across several centres, particularly in Lagos and the South-East.
In a statement titled “Let’s Not Let Glitches Become a National Crisis,” Obi praised Oloyede’s honest admission and remorse as a rare but commendable act in Nigeria’s public sector.
“His open admission of fault and deep remorse stand out as a rare but commendable display of accountability in our public institutions,” Obi said.
He, however, expressed concern over the growing institutional failures in critical sectors, noting that the incident had caused significant emotional distress among students and their families.
Obi urged examination bodies to adopt robust quality assurance systems, enforce regular audits of their technical infrastructure, and ensure better communication with the public to avoid future crises.
“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,” he concluded.
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