The governor of Anambra State, Charles Soludo, has said the recent setback experienced by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in its conduct of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) should not limit the country from making progress technologically.
Soludo made this known at The Platform Programme held in Lagos by The Covenant Nation on Thursday to commemorate Nigeria’s Democracy Day.
“Technology is upon us. We can not afford any failure or experiment or another, just say the response is to return to the analogue system,’’ he said
JAMB faced criticism from several quarters over its announcement that about 379,997 candidates in the just concluded 2025 exercise would retake the examination owing to glitches experienced during the examination.
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The examination body, on its official X handle, established that the technical glitch affected 157 out of the 887 centres, prompting a backlash from Nigerians.
However, the Anambra state governor insisted that creating a proper test model would be the right path to go.
‘’We must embrace technology that does nto undermine that we must make preparations, stress testing is very important. You think it’s true, stress test, stress test, and stress test,” the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor said.
‘’We prepare and ask ourselves where we put the resources and make sure the auxiliary services, such as access to the network, will actually work.’’
“Going back to the analogue system in my solution will not work. But to assume it will be an error-free system with a mechanical device that’s impossible,’’ he said.
A few weeks ago, a former presidential spokesman, Laolu Akande, commended the JAMB registrar for admitting errors in the conduct of the exams.
He said, ”We have to be careful not to let the people that are on the receiving end of that important reform use this occasion to push back against somebody like Oloyede or even the education minister, who is clearly also reform-minded.”
Source: Channels TV
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