Why Imo continuously tops states with highest JAMB applications – Okorocha

Why Imo continuously tops states with highest JAMB applications – Okorocha

Governor Rochas Anayo Okorocha of Imo State

The Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, says the state was able to maintain its record as the state with the highest Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, applications due to his free education programme.

He stated this on Wednesday in reaction to a statement credited to the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, that Imo State has again topped the board’s applications this year with 101,868 applications of the total of 1.7 million applications.

The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Sam Onwuemeodo, said in a press release, that “the Rescue Mission Government in the state with Governor Rochas Okorocha on the driver’s seat, has acknowledged the report credited to the Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, that Imo State has again topped the JAMB applications this year (2017) with 101,868 applications out of the total of 1.7million applications.

“Prof. Oloyede had said at a press briefing in Abuja, Tuesday that Osun State came second with 88,653 applications, while Oyo State came third with 87,811 applications.

“This beautiful development would make it the sixth time since 2012 that Imo would come first in JAMB applications.

“The enviable records did not come by happenstance. They are all products of the free education programme in the state which occasioned the astronomical increase of the school enrolment in the state from 280,000 in 2011 to more than 800,000 at the moment.”