The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB has said that it may reschedule the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME if the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections slated for March 9 are not concluded.
The Board also announced postponement of the mock examination of the slated to start from Saturday, February 23, due to the presidential and National Assembly elections.
JAMB’s Head of Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said a new date for the mock examination would be announced later.
According to him, the Board is also skeptical about the elections, saying ‘we don’t to be fixing date and changing it. But, a new date would be communicated as soon as the concludes.”
He said, “We have fixed a date for our examination. They have shifted the elections and we are also looking at the elections. If for any reason they affect our examination, we will certainly change. But if they don’t affect our examination, we will let it be.
“If there is a need for run-offs and the elections enter another week, of course it will affect our programmes.
“Our mock examination was supposed to start last weekend. Now that INEC has shifted the presidential election to this weekend, certainly the mock examination will not take place that day.
“A new date for the mock examination will soon be announced. But for the examination proper, the date earlier scheduled stands. No date has been picked for the mock. We are still looking at other things.”
