UTME CRISIS: Aisha Yesufu calls for immediate sack of Education Minister, Alausa

Activist and co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement, Aisha Yesufu, has called for the immediate sacking of Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, following the scandal rocking the recently conducted UTME examinations by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

Yesufu who reacted to the open confession by JAMB’s Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, who admitted that there was a technical glitch that led to the failure of millions of candidates who sat for the exams, stated on X that if ‘Nigeria had a President,’ the Minister of Education would have been sacked by now.”

Prof Oloyede had, during a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, tearfully admitted that there were glitches during the conduct of the 2025 JAMB examination leading to mass failures across the five South East states as well as Lagos state which negatively affected the performance of some candidates.

“As Registrar of JAMB, I hold myself personally responsible, including for the negligence of the service provider, and I unreservedly apologise for it and the trauma that it has subjected affected Nigerians to, directly and indirectly,” Oloyede had said while tendering the Board’s apologies to the affected students and Nigerians in general

But the activist believes that Alausa should be relieved of his job as the Minister of Education as his Ministry superintends the affairs of JAMB.

“If Nigeria had a President, the Minister of Education would have been sacked immediately. That man came to say it was measures they put in place to stop cheating that led to the mass failure,” Yesufu wrote on her verified X handle on Thursday.

“Wait a minute, or is it that something was actually put in place to massively fail students?” she queried.

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