The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) branch of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities, ASUU, has vowed to sue the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, regarding the massive failure recorded in this year examinations.
The Chairman of the ASUU-UNN, Oyibo Eze made this known while addressing journalists in Nsukka on Wednesday.
The Chairman said that the massive failure which mainly affected candidates from the South East, was an intentional attempt from the exam board to prevent children from the zone from getting admission.
Oyibo said, “My office has been inundated with protests, calls and visits by parents and the general public on this deliberate massive failure in the 2025 JAMB examination.
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“ASUU will challenge this result in High Court if JAMB fails to review the result and give candidates their merited scores.
“JAMB knows that children from the South East must score higher before they can get admission whereas their counterparts in some parts of the country will use 120 JAMB score to get admission to read medicine in universities in their area.
“In the JAMB recently released result, out of 1,955,069 candidates who sat for the 2025 examination, over 1.5 million candidates scored less than 200 and the majority of these are from the South East and Lagos State, where many Igbos reside.
“The governors in the zone should not sit and watch JAMB toy with academic future of our children.
“I am not against the board punishing those found guilty of exam malpractice, but JAMB should not, because of these few candidates, fail the whole candidates in an exam centre.
“This school has superlative students who have excelled in academics both inside and outside the school, how come all of them scored less than 200 in the exam.
“Even if JAMB discovered one or two candidates for exam malpractice, is that enough reason to fail all others who have prepared very hard for that exam.”
Oyibo urged the examination body to take immediate action by reviewing the results as the massive failure is now a national issue that can attract a nationwide protest if nothing is done.
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