Abaribe, Kalu Other South East Senators Slam JAMB Over 2025 UTME Error

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• Say Exam Glitch Caused by ‘hateful politics’

By Abiola Olawale

The South East Senate Caucus has lambasted the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) under the leadership of Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, over technical glitches that marred the 2025 UTME examinations.

The lawmakers from 5 southeastern states including Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, the lawmaker representing Abia South senatorial district of Abia State at the senate; Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, the lawmaker representing Abia north Senatorial District of Abia State in the Senate, among others expressed their concerns over the glitch that affect centres across the states in the region.

The lawmakers led by Abaribe, the Chairman of the southeast Senate Caucus described the development as ‘curious and highly suspicious’.

They blamed it on “injecting hateful politics and narrow parochial considerations in both policy enunciation and its implementations”.

Abaribe said: “The so-called glitch, as curious and suspicious as it was, is enough to erode confidence and dangerously lower national pride among the future generation.

“The relevant national education drivers must recognise the inherent danger of injecting hateful politics and narrow parochial considerations in both policy enunciation and its implementations.

“That the glitch happened in the whole of South East raises pertinent questions that must be answered by JAMB to assuage the growing frustrations and fears among the people of the region, particularly the children who are directly at the receiving end. We must pursue a Nigerian agenda and not a narrow one that will ultimately injure national unity.

“Education remains one of the most important bedrocks of any society’s advancement. It is one major index of development in every facet of life that can never be faulted. Education is a major pivot that triggers national development. Every child is entitled to it; therefore, we must not play roulette with it.”

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