The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has offered to give the National President of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, N1million if he can substantiate his claims that admissions into universities are done by JAMB.
Obviously incensed by Osodeke’s remarks, the board, in a statement by its Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, on Sunday in Abuja, unleashed a barrage of scathing remarks on the union leader, describing his comment as ill-informed.
JAMB reiterated that it does not conduct admission for institutions but rather regulates the process.
The ASUU president had said, “…Admissions are being done by JAMB and sent to you … Vice-Chancellors don’t know how the admissions are done.”
But the board responded by saying Osodeke “betrayed his acute ignorance of the admission process into tertiary institutions in the country when he appeared on a programme of one of the radio stations in Abuja on Saturday, 11th June 2022.”
The statement read “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 of 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.”
“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.”