Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra has approved the repeat of the June 4 online recruitment test for applicants into the state’s civil service.

“In a bid to make up and ensure that all eligible candidates are carried along, the governor has approved a repeat of the exercise,” a statement by his media aide, Christian Aburime, said.

The recruitment test was marred by technical challenges as only 6,000 candidates of 31,000 successfully submitted.

Mr Soludo had earlier admitted the error and promised to revisit the matter because of the myriad of complaints that trailed the online test and assured the public that it was not a scam as claimed in some quarters.

According to the statement, Mr Soludo directed the Commissioner for Education to conduct a repeat of the exercise.

He said the repeat was to make up for the preliminary teacher’s recruitment examination shortfall and ensure transparency and fairness to all.

“The governor has further directed that all expenses for the test be covered by the Government.

“Governor directed that all the over 31,000 listed applicants should be given equal chance to participate in a preliminary online exam, before shortlisting the successful applicants for the second Computer Based Test.”

However, Mr Aburime did not disclose the new date for the repeat examination.

He said the Ministry of Education received over 40,000 applications and listed about 31,800 qualified applicants after reviews. 

(NAN)