The Presidency through his Media and Publicity Shehu Garba Shehu, SSAP have respond to President
Buhari plagiarized president Barack Obama's speech at the launch of "Change Begins
With Me" reorientation campaign in Abuja last week
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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