JAMB: Board Slams ASUU President Following Remark OnTertiary Admission

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has condemned the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke over his remarks concerning the issue of tertiary institution admissions in Nigeria.

Osodeke had in a radio interview in Abuja said admissions were done by JAMB without the involvement of  Vice-Chancellors.

JAMB, under the leadership of Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, in a statement signed by its Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said against the stand of ASUU, it was not in charge of conducting admissions but regulating the process.

“The attention of JAMB has been drawn to the ill-informed statement made by the rattled President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke.

“He betrayed his acute ignorance of the admission process into tertiary institutions in the country when he appeared on a programme on one of the radio stations in Abuja on Saturday, 11th June 2022.

“The ASUU President had made this unfortunate blunder in his laborious effort to curry favour with the public when he unimaginatively said, ‘…Admissions are being done by JAMB and sent to you. Vice-Chancellors don’t know how the admissions are done," the statement read.

JAMB further challenged the ASUU Don to prove his point by presenting a candidate of an institution who was not recommended by that institution in the last five years. 

“It is highly reprehensible for an academic, albeit a researcher of such high standing, not to have the slightest idea of how candidates are admitted or to be ill-prepared for such a public forum. It is thus obvious that the problem bedevilling the educational sector is actually deeper than we had imagined.

“We challenge the Professor to present one Vice-Chancellor of University, Rector of Polytechnic or Provost of any college of education with even one candidate that has not been recommended by the institution but admitted in the last five years.

“The Board promises the Professor one million naira if he can substantiate his falsehood with even one proof,” it added.