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The Presidency has responded to reports that President Buhari plagiarized president Barack Obama’s speech at the launch of “Change Begins With Me” reorientation campaign in Abuja last week
A part of President Buhari’s speech (right) contained largely the same arrangement of words and emotional outburst that President Obama used in his 2008 victory speech (left) after he was elected the first American black president. Reacting to the report, Senior Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Shehu Garba, says the official responsible for the speech will be sanctioned
Below is the statement issued by Shehu Garba Shehu, SSAP Media and Publicity to the President:
The Presidency wishes to respond to a story on alleged plagiarism in a Presidential Speech that has been trending for most of today.
The Presidency observed that the similarities between a paragraph in President Obama’s 2008 Victory Speech and what the President read in paragraph nine of the sixteen-paragraph while inaugurating the “Change begins with me” are too close to be passed as coincidence. There was a mistake by an overzealous administration staff and we regret that this has happened.
A Deputy Director in the Presidency has accepted responsibility for the insertion of the contentious paragraphs even when a query to him was being typed.
This serious oversight will be investigated thoroughly and appropriate punishment meted.
The Presidency, once again regrets this unfortunate incident. Measures have been put in place to ensure that this does not happen again.
President Muhammadu Buhari admonished Nigerians to move past incident and focus on the message of change which the country needs in order to restore our cherished value systems.

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Source: http://www.timenaija.com/2016/09/16/plagiarism-presidency-to-punish-official-who-inserted-obamas-quote-in-president-buharis-speech/

This is serious

Nonsense illiterate good for nothing Nigerian government,ordinary speech that a secondary school student can give they cannot, everything na copy copy, [/b]how dey won change Nigeria for better[b], they obviously have nothing to offer

lol. I love this our government you want to purniah someone for something you can't even do.at list him own better him knw Watin to copy.#changebeginwithme#coping while am not in exam hall

Obama be like


Buhari be like


Me be like

there are more important queries to initiate in this administration. First who and how does the forex handled, why is the GOC Army yet to answer to the Dubai properties, did the president wife have anything to haliburton, the corruption petition against the transport minister about his tenure as governor. I don't care about a speech cause am sure I use other peoples quote when I find it inspiring. Obama used Martin Luther King Jnr "I have a dream speech". So investigate and prosecute important issues

Where you blind wen reading through? ?
oh I forgot, he does not follow current events except to siphon money through his conduit Halliburton. ..

Nigeria I hail thee

While I must commend the presidency in admitting when they've erred, they will be overdoing it by punishing the official responsible.

Would they have given the said official the glory if he had come up with an extraordinary speech that enhanced the President's reputation?

Story story, Story!!!!

It was like how Buhari fired 22 Directors from Budget office and exonerated himself.

Was he saying he failed to scrutinize the budget as the president before submitting it to the senate??

Zombies are very gullible.

blueto:
It was like how Buhari fired 22 Directors from Budget office and exonerated himself.

Was he saying he failed to scrutinize the budget as the president before submitting it to the senate??

Zombies are very gullible.

This are the same clowns that will call Buhari a dullard. Whereas the kind of illiteracy, they show on the internet is worse than that of a compound dullard. So u expect the president of a country to go through the budget page by page, word for word b4 passing it to the senate. Oya clap for urself

progress69:


This are the same clowns that will call Buhari a dullard. Whereas the kind of illiteracy, they show on the internet is worse than that of a compound dullard. So u expect the president of a country to go through the budget page by page, word for word b4 passing it to the senate. Oya clap for urself

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Then why is he president? Please receive sense

K

Buhari read, u no go read,na to dey watch cartoon with tom and jerry u sabi. Leave d innocent man alone and resign immediately coz u are a terrible failure. Small time u go begin to blame Donald Trump and Oga Goody goody Jonathan for ur incompetency.

Oops, that was really bad

nwasinachi:
Buhari read, u no go read, na to dey watch cartoon with tom and jerry u sabi. Leave d innocent man alone and resign immediately coz u are a terrible failure. Small time u go begin to blame Donald Trump and Oga Goody goody Jonathan for ur incompetency.

You mean burukutu sipping bastard watches cartoon? Na wa

O

Highest level of embarrassment.
Guy dug it out too, na wa o.

Cattle rearer writing a speech. What do you expect. They thought everybody thinks like zombies.

Did Buhari not go through the speech before delivering it?

LesbianBoy:


You mean burukutu sipping bastard watches cartoon? Na wa

My brother, d day i hear am for dis nairaland, na so i open mouth.