Timilehin Opesusi, the 19-year-old tragically passed away after taking her own life due to her high score on the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), has filed an appeal with the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to request the release of his daughter’s “actual” results.
Among the more than 300, 000 candidates who were affected by the “technical error” during the 2025 UTME was Timilehin, who cohabitated with her older sister Opeyemi in Ikorodu, Lagos.
She received a 400-point score. The youngster ingested a rodenticide, which caused her death, after being irritated by the news.
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The grieving father pleaded with the JAMB to hold him accountable in an exclusive interview with Channels Television, insisting Timilehin’s result was inaccurate.
“JAMB should give me the actual results of my daughter, not the one they altered after they learned of my daughter’s death.” God will decide whether or not to judge, according to the bereaved father.
Timilehin reportedly felt confident in her performance and was devastated by the grade she received.
“Daddy, this is not my outcome!” Femi Opesusi recalled what his daughter said when her result was made public, “Daddy, this is not my result.”
“I received a score of 190 last year, and 146 this year,” I said. This is not the outcome I want to see.
Mr. Opesusi claimed he tried to calm her down and that he would resolve everything: “I told her to just take it easy, just take it easy.” You and your sister are present. Take it easy. I am aware of what to do.
However, Timilehin ingested a “Push Out” sachet of rodenticide a few hours later.
Opeyemi, her older sister, was taken to the hospital but passed away.
During the 2025 UTME, other candidates and parents reported unusually low scores and technical issues, which Timilehin’s death sparked national outcry.
The examination body initially defended the results, insisting that all of the results were true.
However, on May 14, the JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, acknowledged during a press conference that a technical glitch had affected 379, 997 candidates across 157 centers, mostly in Lagos and parts of the South-East, following a widespread public outcry.
He apologized in a teary apology, saying, “We are human, we are not perfect.”
A mop-up examination, which took place on May 16, 2025, was scheduled by the JAMB to accommodate the candidates who had been affected.
Mr. Opesusi claims JAMB has not reached out to his family despite the Board setting a minute of silence in her honor at a recent meeting.
He claimed that they have never called me, never given me an interview, or never spoken to me.
The father, who was clearly shaken, declared, “I don’t want to see them.” The only thing I want is my daughter’s actual outcomes.
Since his daughter’s death, he continued, not a government official has reached him.
Among the 1.95 million candidates who took the 2025 UTME, over 78% of those who sat the exam scored below 200, compared to only 12 candidates who scored 300 or higher, according to JAMB.
The 10th House of Representatives’ South-East Caucus demanded Oloyede’s resignation in the wake of the controversy. The outcome of the exam was described as a “national shame” by the caucus.
Source: Channels TV
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