Abdulrasaq kamaldeen reports
Aspirants who are seeking admission into Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto have reacted over the delay in the exercise of the school’s admission process.
Recall that UDUS is yet to admit both 2021 and 2022 aspirants. The delay in the admission process has plunged many of the aspirants into a state of confusion and depression, particularly the candidates who chose the school since 2021 Joint Admission and Matriculation Board(JAMB) exercise.
Though the process could be said to have been stalled by eight months industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities in 2022, the aspirants_despite some of them have started seeing ‘admission in progress’ on JAMB Central Admission Processing System(Caps)_have expressed dissatisfaction of the exercise.
Speaking with the NEWS DIGEST PRESS, Umar Maryam, an aspirant who hails from Kwara state lamented over the delay, noting that her mates have been offered admission in other universities.
“I have been aspiring for common and Islamic law at UDUS since 2021 and I must say, I didn’t feel so great about the delay, irrespective of the strike.
“I think the school calendar is too slow. Other federal universities have already resumed. I scored 230 and my caps have changed to AIP but I’m not sure if I can still call myself an aspirant because I have been admitted into Kwara State University Malete since 2022 as a mass communication student,” she said.
Also, Mohammed Danladi Aliyu, an aspirant of Medicine and Surgery has expressed how he feels broken-hearted with the admission process.
Aliyu noted that he has never seen a school delaying admission to this extent.
“l did two jambs and l chose UDUS as the institution of my first choice for each jamb,”he said. “My first jamb was in 2021, I got 230 which is now in AIP while the second one was in 2022 which I scored 272, and.” up till now, it’s showing ‘not yet admitted.”
Another aspirant who spoke with The News Digest Press, Muhammad Abdulkadir, said that he is uneasy because he has not seen any changes on his JAMB Caps.
“I’m too worried about this admission and I am feeling sad because I have not seen any changes on my caps”.
Meanwhile, in a telephone conversation with the Admission Officer, Mallam Shehu Abubakar told our correspondent that he is not in the position to talk about the admission exercise.