Post UTME: We don’t want to be unfair to candidates – OAU

.…As 27, 000 writes exam
Ile-Ife (Osun) – Over 27,000 applicants seeking
admission to Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-
Ife, on Saturday wrote the post-Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The Public Relations Officer of OAU, Mr Abiodun
Olanrewaju, who spoke in Ile-Ife on Saturday, said
the candidates include secondary school leavers and
direct entry students.
Olanrewaju said that the students that qualified for
OAU post-UTME were the ones who scored 200 and
above in JAMB exams and took OAU as their first
choice.
He said that many candidates with distinctions from
their various schools applied for the admission and in
order to be fair to all, screening exercise should be
carried out.
“We have so many candidates that applied for direct
entry admission and just to fulfill exam
righteousness, they need to be screened.
“We don’t want to be unfair to any and for us to be
justified; admission screening would allow us to have
the real competent ones,” he said.
One of the candidates, Aanu-Oluwapo Adeyemi, who
applied for Law, told NAN that she would love to be
admitted in OAU for her studies.
Adeyemi said that she believed that the school would
mould her and give her excellent academic
expectations.
Mrs Lynda Echebima, a parent from Port-Harcourt,
who brought her daughter for post-UTME, expressed
satisfaction on the conduct of the exam, stressing
that it was well organised.
“From what I’ve seen so far, it is not so far from the
impression I have about OAU, I hope that the
students will get their deserved marks,” she said.
In the same vein, Mr Olusegun Adetayo, another
parent from Lagos State told NAN that he liked the
conduct of the exam because the management made
students to realise that they meant business.
Adetayo urged the management to maintain the
discipline, expressing the belief that the marking
would commence immediately and within 24 hours
or less the results would be out. (NAN)