Femi Opesusi, the father of Timilehin Opesusi, the 19-year-old who tragically died after committing suicide over her score in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), has appealed to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to release his daughter’s “actual” result of his daughter.

Timilehin, who lived with her older sister, Opeyemi, in Ikorodu, Lagos, was among more than 300,000 candidates who were affected by the “technical error” during the 2025 UTME.

She received a score of 146 out of 400. Frustrated by the news, the youngster ingested a rodenticide, which led to her death.

In an exclusive interview with Channels Television, the grieving father demanded accountability from JAMB, insisting Timilehin’s result was inaccurate.

“JAMB should give me the actual result of my daughter, not the one they have tampered with after they heard the news of my daughter’s death. If not, God will judge,” the bereaved father said.

According to him, Timilehin was confident she had performed better and was devastated by the score she received.

“’Daddy, this is not my result!’ ‘Daddy, this is not my result,'” Femi Opesusi said while recalling what his daughter said when her result was released.

“’I scored 190 last year, and this year they gave me 146. This is not my result.’”

Mr. Opesusi said he tried to reassure her and that he would sort everything out: “I told her to just take it easy, just take it easy. ‘You are there with your sister. Just take it easy. I know what to do.’”

But a few hours later, Timilehin ingested a sachet of rodenticide known as “Push Out.”

Her elder sister, Opeyemi, rushed to the hospital but did not survive.

Timilehin’s death sparked national outrage, with other candidates and parents reporting unusually low scores and technical issues during the 2025 UTME.

Initially, the examination body defended the scores, insisting that all results released were valid.

However, on May 14, following widespread public outcry, the JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, admitted during a press briefing that a technical glitch had affected 379,997 candidates across 157 centres, mostly in Lagos and parts of the South-East.

He tearfully apologised, stating, “We are human; we are not perfect”.

In response, the JAMB scheduled a mop-up examination, which began on May 16, 2025, to accommodate the affected candidates.

While the Board observed a minute of silence in her honour during a recent meeting, Mr. Opesusi says JAMB has not reached out to his family.

“They have never called me, they have never granted me an interview, they have never said anything to me,” he said.

The visibly shaken father said, “I don’t want to see them. What I want is the actual result of my daughter, that’s the only thing.”

He added that no government official had contacted him since his daughter’s death.

Meanwhile, JAMB reported that out of 1.95 million candidates who sat the 2025 UTME, over 78% scored below 200, while only 12,414 candidates scored 300 or above.

In the wake of the controversy, the South-East Caucus of the 10th House of Representatives called for Oloyede’s resignation. The caucus described the examination’s outcome as a “national shame.”

Timilehin’s death has further raised concerns about Nigeria’s education system, mental health among students, and the need for greater transparency in national examinations.