The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has berated Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, the President of the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) over his comments that “Admissions are being done by JAMB and sent to you … Vice-Chancellors don’t know how the admissions are done.”
JAMB in a statement on Sunday issued by Fabian Benjamin, its Head, Public Affairs and Protocol clarified that “…Board does not conduct admission for institutions but rather regulates the process.”
Professor Osodeke had featured on a radio programme on Saturday in Abuja where he said “Vice-Chancellors don’t know how the admissions are done”.
Read the JAMB’s statement below
.The attention of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has been drawn to the ill-informed statement made by the rattled President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (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.”
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.
