The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Thursday, faulted the resolution of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to reschedule a fresh university matriculation examination for the candidates that were affected by the JAMB errors in the recently released results.

Recall that the Registrar of JAMB, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, Wednesday, during a press conference in Abuja, admitted that errors led to the low score of candidates in the five South-East states and Lagos State.

Oloyede said that the board had therefore resolved to reschedule a fresh examination for the affected candidates to make up for the technical errors that undermined their scores in the recently released results.

Reacting, the National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, said the arrangement was unacceptable. In his view, it was a disservice for JAMB to subject the candidates to “another round of mental torture, stress and risk” for no faults of theirs.

Quoting him, “We want to state unequivocally that our people will not accept any fresh examination, having already been subjected to mental torture by JAMB.

“The candidates are not in the right frame of mind to undergo another examination, having faced mental torture ever since the fake results were announced.”

The Ohanaeze youth leader demanded to know who would bear the cost of the fresh examination both in finance and stress, adding, “What of the risk of moving to the examination locations in a country ravaged by insecurity?”

The youth wing therefore demanded that JAMB allocate 300 score to all the South-East and Lagos state candidates affected “by its own error, not that of the candidates”.

The president continued, “Igbos are very brilliant people and could have made 300 and above. It was a deliberate design to punish and sabotage the people of the South-East, clearly to deny them education opportunities.

“Should JAMB fail to heed to our request, we shall not hesitate to drag them to court. No form of crocodile tears by the registrar will save the board.”

Some parents who spoke with our correspondent in Enugu, however, welcomed JAMB’s decision.

Mr Johnson Umunna, residing at Golf Estate, Enugu, said, “The admission of the error by JAMB is a welcome development. The management could have suppressed the error, and nothing would have happened. We however expect the examination to be just in terms of the standards. The candidates were really demoralized. My daughter almost gave up when she saw her dismal score.”

Meletus Okafor sat for the exam. He said, “My score baffled me. At least I knew I did well in mathematics. But I scored 26, and had an aggregate below 200. Re-writing it is a good resolution for JAMB. It would have appeared that they wanted Igbo candidates to fail.”