The attention of the authorities of the Federal University Oye Ekiti has been drawn to some Online outlets publications on 3rd October, 2025, in which one Dr. Clement Owoeye alleged that his son, David Owoeye was denied admission into Medicine by FUOYE.
He alleged in the report that his son scored 300 in UTME and had an aggregate Post UTME score of 84% .
He went further to assert that the cut off mark for medicine is 84.65% and that his son ought to have been admitted with 84%.
He based his plea on a falsehood by saying only 16 persons scored 84.65% and that the vacancies left out of the quota of 50 for Medicine is 32.
After the publications on 3rd October, 2025 where he lampooned the university, Dr. Owoeye visited the institution on Monday, 6th October, 2025 to beg for his son’s admission.
The Acting Vice- Chancellor met him in the presence of the Registrar, Director of Legal Unit, Admissions Officer, Deputy Registrar Personnel, the university Public Relations Officer among others.
The university explained to Dr. Owoeye the criteria for admission and that his son had only two major windows of getting admitted namely Merit and Catchment and that his performance was not good enough to make him win a placement under the two categories.
He was shown how the 45% Merit and the 35% catchment areas were picked.
Dr. Owoeye showed remorse and he apologized profusely to the point of weeping.
The university authorities told Dr. Owoeye that he had embarrassed the institution and asked Dr. Clement Owoeye to apologise to the University for dragging the name of the institution in the mud.
The Acting Vice- Chancellor added that the apologies must be given the same wide publicity given to the falsehood peddled against FUOYE through the fake news of 3rd October, 2025.
Dr. Owoeye was told that he should, thereafter, pray for possible attrition which could provide a window for the consideration of his child and other marginal cases.
Rather than apologise, Dr Owoeye, through the same online publications of 7th October, 2025 was praising the Acting Vice- Chancellor for what he called “proactive action of the Acting Vice- Chancellor on son’s Admission Denial.”
Dr Owoeye, did not only repeat all the false claims he made in the publications of 3rd October, 2025, he asserted falsely that his son had been promised a space.
The university will like to inform the general public that Dr. Owoeye dealt in selective honesty under which he fabricated multiple lies to discredit the institution.
While it is true that his son scored 300 in UTME, the boy is just one out of so many who paraded scores above 300.
His son, though brilliant, competed with a large number of candidates whose WASC/NECO were superior to his in terms of points. It is not true that the university denied David Owoeye admission.
The truth is that FUOYE followed strictly the Federal Government criteria for admission into Federal Universities namely; Merit: 45%, Catchment: 35%, ELDS (Educational Less Developed States): 20%.
The FOUYE Senate approved guidelines for admission provide that UTME score should be reduced to 60% while WASC/NECO results should account for 40% which is calculated based on credit grade points obtained.
The final Post UTME Screening score is based on a mark obtainable of 100.
Those who applied to study Medicine in FUOYE this year were 2,392 while the NUC/MDCN quota for the MBBS programme is 50. The University therefore set minimum tolerable UTME score for Medicine at 270.
Those who scored 270 and above in UTME among them were 323. Those who scored 300 and above in UTME, like David Owoeye, were 108.
Those who scored minimum of 70% in POST UTME were 273. Those who scored minimum of 80% in Post UTME were 99.
Applying the Federal Government criteria to the Quota of 50 was an herculean task.
45% (Merit) candidates out of 50 students gives only 23 persons. Contrary to Dr. Owoeye’s claims, the least of the 23 people scored 84.65%.
They were all picked purely on merit from the highest score up till the person who scored 84.65%.
For the catchment of 35%, it was more difficult because all 36 States in the Federation and the FCT are Catchment of FUOYE.
As a result, the standard is to pick the best candidate from each of the states of the Federation where candidates subscribed to the course.
The least under Catchment was 82.15%. Unfortunate for David Owoeye, his score of 84 was inferior to those of some other candidates from his State (Ekiti State) who competed under the Catchment slot.
There were two candidates who scored above David Owoeye . One scored 84.25% and the other 84.15%.
The better of them was admitted. The next window of opportunity for admission is the ELDS.
Interestingly, Ekiti State and other States in the South West are not among Educational Less Developed States. The best performing chaps from the ELDS States got admitted into the course. The least score from ELDS admission slot was 78.45% who came from Ebonyi State.
The above is the guideline and the dynamics applied which Dr. Owoeye interpreted as the university denying his son admission.
In terms of transparency, FUOYE was open with the candidates and the general public on the admission processing. To prevent those who had no chance of getting admitted from registering for Post UTME, the University advertised the minimum tolerable UTME score which was 270.
When cut off points of academic programmes were determined later, the University advertised the points again to guide the students.
At this point, a number of the candidates changed from FUOYE or changed from MBBS programme.
Nothing was done under the table. David Owoeye had the opportunity, then, to change his course or institution of choice.
Dr Owoeye, though a surgeon, did not do any scintilla of due diligence for which medical experts are known all over the world. He ought to have sought knowledge about how admission is done.
The medical doctor failed to realize that decimal points are very material in the determination of winners in any keenly contested competition.
Could he have added the value of 0.65 to a medical student’s score without justification in a qualifying examination?
Many of the UTME candidates beat one another with narrow margins just like split second differences determine winners and losers in sprint races.
He was alleged to be pleading that the university should admit his son by ignoring the shortfall of O.65 which the boy missed.
Dr. Owoeye needs to know that the UTME or POST UTME is not an achievement test but a competitive test. It is not to prove that “my child is brilliant” but that, given all factors, he is suitable for admission.
If David Owoeye had competed in a university with a quota of 250 or more he might probably have been admitted.
How, for instance, did Dr. Owoeye get the population of those who scored 84.65% and the number of vacancies that existed? How credible is the information provided by a random parent on admission processing in a Nigerian University?
Did Dr. Owoeye’s information agree with findings from JAMB? Did he know that a student might be recommended by the university who might still be awaiting JAMB approval?
It remains to add that FUOYE is rated by JAMB as the 4th most subscribed University in Nigeria by admission seekers.
This explains why the race of getting into the university was so competitive and must be contributory to the choice of institution made by David Owoeye and the dilemma of failing to get admitted.
The concentration of talents in FUOYE was definitely the reason why the boy and 245 others who scored 270 & above in UTME could not make it.
It was the reason why 73 persons who scored 300 & above in UTME were not admitted. These include an Ekiti candidate, who scored 345 in UTME and ended up with 83.75%.
The university did not deliberately deny anyone admission. Everything answered to dynamics of admission guidelines.
The university Legal team is reviewing Dr. Owoeye’s attack on the University for necessary action in due course especially if he fails to apologise in a national wide tabloid.