The South-East Senate Caucus has blamed "hateful politics" for the recent Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) incident, which led to about 400,000 candidates needing to retake the examination in the region.
The senators attributed the situation to “injecting hateful politics and narrow parochial considerations in both policy enunciation and its implementations.”
In a statement issued Saturday in Abuja by its Chairman, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (APGA, Abia South), the caucus alleged a conspiracy aimed at harming the future of the region’s children.
"It would be disheartening, and we hope not to contemplate such a conspiracy theory — that there is a narrow agenda being pursued to deliberately shortchange and harm the future of our children," the statement read.
"The so-called glitch, as curious and suspicious as it was, is enough to erode confidence and dangerously lower national pride among the future generation."
“The relevant national education drivers must recognise the inherent danger of injecting hateful politics and narrow parochial considerations in both policy enunciation and its implementations.”
"That the glitch happened in the whole of the South-East raises pertinent questions that must be answered by JAMB to assuage the growing frustrations and fears among the people of the region, particularly the children who are directly at the receiving end. We must pursue a Nigerian agenda and not a narrow one that will ultimately injure national unity."
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