Group Condemns Politicization of JAMB Mass Failure: Calls for Minister of Education’s Resignation over Gross Incompetence

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By KEMI KAYODE

Not Too Young To Perform (NTYTP), a youth-driven leadership development and advocacy organization with active structures across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), strongly condemns the recent comments made by the Honourable Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, in which he astonishingly described the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) mass failure as an “achievement” for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.

As a non-governmental organization committed to promoting responsible, ethical, and visionary leadership, NTYTP views the minister’s statement as an appalling display of insensitivity, incompetence, and politicization of a deeply troubling national crisis.

“It is unfortunately pathetic that under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration, almost every national issue is shamelessly politicized,” said Arc Bello Muhammed, National Secretary of NTYTP. “For the Minister of Education to downplay the catastrophic failure rate recorded in the recent JAMB examinations and paint it as an achievement is nothing short of a national disgrace. Instead of taking urgent, proactive steps to address the systemic decay in our educational sector, the minister has chosen to defend failure and celebrate collapse.”

A Failing System, Ignored from the Top

NTYTP emphasizes that the crisis in Nigeria’s education system is not confined to examination halls or test results. The rot is deeply rooted in the deplorable state of public schools across the country, where: