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Former presidential aide and political commentator, Reno Omokri, has lashed out at Labour Party’s Peter Obi, accusing the former Anambra State governor of lacking the moral authority to critique Nigeria’s education system following the release of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results.
Reacting to Obi’s call for “aggressive” investment in education in response to the poor national performance, Omokri stated that Obi’s tenure as governor between 2006 and 2014 contributed to the very decay in education he now criticizes.
In a sharply worded statement titled “A Man Who Did Not Build a Single School Is Complaining About JAMB Score?”, Omokri alleged that Obi did not construct a single nursery, primary, secondary school, or university during his eight years in office, nor did he build a stand-alone hospital.
“You cannot complain about a problem you caused,” Omokri declared. “Instead, you allowed 486 exam miracle centres to thrive under you, with your avid cooperation, until your successor, Willie Obiano, closed them down in 2014.”
He further accused Obi of prioritizing alcohol over academics. “Your only aggressive investment was building two non-loss-making beer breweries,” Omokri said. “If this were an issue of a beer brewery and drunkenness, you could talk because that is your area of speciality.”
The statement comes amid national concern over declining academic performance, with JAMB recently reporting that less than 1.5% of UTME candidates scored above 300 in the 2025 exam.. CONTINUE READING
