YPP Candidate Tackles Soludo Over Falling Education Standard

The candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) in the November 8, 2025 Anambra state gubernatorial election, Sir Paul Chukwuma, has tackled the state governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, over the poor performance of  students in the state as seen in the recently released Join Administration and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and National Examination Council (NECO) exams.

Chukwuma lamented that Anambra State that placed top consecutively for more than a decade in national rating has suddenly placed 28th position in the recently released results.

The YPP governorship candidate in a statement yesterday, said, “Today, we have witnessed a shocking decline in some of the key indicators of development in our State.

“Once the leading light in education for over a decade, the current administration in Anambra State has caused this gain to wither.

“Today, Anambra State has significantly dropped in education rating, much so that our state now comes behind Abia, Imo and Ebonyi States in terms of students’ performance.

“Under the current Anambra State Government, we have witnessed such a decline to the extent that Anambra State was unable to feature in both regional and national lists of top states with students who made five credits in their senior certificate examination. It has never been this bad in over a decade.

“This is a promise broken into pieces. A gain now lost. For us as a people, it is a dangerous signal for our State and the future of our kids”, Sir Chukwuma lamented further.

Chukwuma, however, pledged that if voted into office his administration would reverse the unfortunate development.