The youth wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, has firmly rejected the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board's (JAMB) proposal for a resit examination for candidates from the South-East region affected by errors in the recently released Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results.

In a statement released on Thursday, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, described JAMB's arrangement as "totally unacceptable" and demanded that affected candidates be allocated 300 scores instead.

This development follows JAMB Registrar Prof. Ishaq Oloyede's admission on Wednesday that errors led to the low scores of candidates in the five South-East states and Lagos State. The examination body had announced plans to reschedule the exam for affected candidates.

"We want to state unequivocally that our people will not accept any fresh examination, having already been subjected to mental torture by JAMB," Okwu declared in the statement. "The candidates are not in the right frame of mind to undergo another examination, having faced mental torture ever since the fake results were announced."

The Ohanaeze youth leader raised concerns about the financial implications and security risks associated with a resit examination. "Who is going to bear the cost? The same parents who are facing severe financial challenges? What of the risk of moving to the examination locations, in a country ravaged by insecurity?" he questioned.

The organization alleged deliberate targeting of South-East candidates, claiming it was "a deliberate design to punish the people of the South-East, clearly to deny them education opportunities."

Ohanaeze has threatened legal action if JAMB fails to meet their demand of allocating 300 scores to all affected South-East candidates. "Igbos are very brilliant people and could have made 300 and above," Okwu insisted, adding that "no form of crocodile tears by the Registrar will save the Board" if they proceed with the resit plan.

According to JAMB, 379,997 candidates were affected by glitches in the 2025 UTME results, with 173,387 candidates scheduled to rewrite the examination. The Board has announced that affected candidates will receive text messages with further instructions.