The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan chapter has rejected the admission policy of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and called on Nigerians to join in calling for the its total scrapping, saying that it has outlived its usefulness.

 ASUU Chairman, Professor Segun Ajiboye while speaking in Ibadan said the union kicked against the policy of reassignment of candidates against their choices being adopted by JAMB.

 ASUU said JAMB had made the admission process chaotic and exposed candidates to fraudsters, saying that JAMB must respect candidates' preferences and choices for tertiary institutions and consider security of lives of candidates, cost, proximity, quality, and rights of the Nigerian child in arriving at any policy.

While reacting to the recent policy, Ajiboye described the policy as insensitive and exploitative of the children of the poor, adding that it amounted to abuse of their fundamental human rights of freedom of choice.

ASUU lashed out at the Professor Dibu Ojerinde JAMB Board for being so insensitive to the plights of the Nigerian masses whose parents have not been paid for months by some governors but were now being forced to pay N1, 000 naira to know where they are reassigned against their choices.

Ajiboye asked JAMB to respect the Act establishing it (Act 5 (c i-iii) which prescribes that the placement of suitable qualified candidates into tertiary institutions must take into account “the preferences expressed or otherwise indicated by candidates for certain tertiary institutions and courses; the vacancies available in each tertiary institution; the guidelines approved for each tertiary institution by its proprietor or other competent authority"

In the absence of a substantive Minister of Education, the ASUU boss called on President Mohammadu Buhari to call the Dibu Ojerinde JAMB to order so as not to make the children of the masses who populate public schools suffer.

While calling on President Mohammadu Buhari to probe the over N1billion naira that will be generated from the purchase of scratch cards of what he called ‘unpopular policy’, Ajiboye berated the racket on the sale of scratch cards which have been mopped up at JAMB offices by agents who now sell it for N1,500 to candidates.

According to Ajiboye, the University of Ibadan for instance, provides a level playing ground for students who scored 200 and above in JAMB examination to compete for the available spaces in the university.