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President
Muhammadu Buhari Photo: AFP
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The Presidency has issued
the statement below admitting that the speech read by President Muhammadu
Buhari contained insertions plagiarized from a 2008 speech by U.S. President,
Barack Obama.
Media
report continues:
A
statement by a presidency spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said an investigation had
been launched into the matter and that officials so far identified to have
committed the blunder would be punished.
READ FULL PRESIDENCY
STATEMENT BELOW.
President
Muhammadu Buhari has ordered that prompt and appropriate disciplinary action be
taken against those responsible for a wrongful insertion in his speech
delivered on September 8, 2016 at the launch of the “Change Begins with Me’’
campaign.
It
was observed that the similarities between a paragraph in President Obama’s
2008 Victory Speech and what President Buhari read in paragraph nine of the
sixteen-paragraph address while inaugurating the Campaign on Thursday,
September 8, 2016 are too close to be passed as coincidence.
There
was a mistake by an overzealous staff and we regret that this has happened.
Already,
a Deputy Director in the Presidency has accepted responsibility for the
insertion of the contentious paragraph.
This
serious oversight will be investigated thoroughly and appropriate sanction
meted.
The
Presidency wishes to state in the clearest possible terms that it regrets this
unfortunate incident and will ensure that this does not happen again.
President
Buhari urges Nigerians to look beyond this incident and focus on the message of
change which the country needs in order to restore our cherished value systems.
Garba ShehuSSA to the President
(Media & Publicity)
September 16, 2016
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