President Muhammadu Buhari is on a very cold hot seat after reports that the president allegedly plagiarized President Barack Obama in the speech he deliveredwhile launching ‘Change Begins with Me’ campaign project.
President Buhari allegedly lifted quotes from a 2008 speech by President Obama.
President Buhari had said
However, facts have emerged indicating Buhari did not author those quotes.
Adeola Akinremi, a columnist with THISDAY Newspaper, spotted possible instances of plagiarism between Preident Buhari’s speech and a speech delivered by President Obamawhen he was first elected in 2008.
In a speech delivered after his victory on the 4th day of November , 2008, Obama said :
“It is immoral to plagiarize other people’s work, but even worse to use dishonesty to launch a campaign about honesty.
Mr. Akinremi said : “When you use another person’s work without acknowledgement, you have plagiarized. You simply pretend as if it is your own. It is unethical. It makes a mess of the campaign from the start. That is what Buhari has done, nobody will believe in the ‘change begins with me’ campaign, because it was built on lies,”
Presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said the presidency would investigate the allegation.
President Buhari had said
“We must resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship, pettiness and immaturity that have poisoned our country for so long. Let us summon a new spirit of responsibility, spirit of service, of patriotism and sacrifice, Let us all resolve to pitch in and work hard and look after, not only ourselves but one another.
“What the current problem has taught us is that we cannot have a thriving army of rent seekers and vested interests, while the majority suffers,”
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However, facts have emerged indicating Buhari did not author those quotes.
Adeola Akinremi, a columnist with THISDAY Newspaper, spotted possible instances of plagiarism between Preident Buhari’s speech and a speech delivered by President Obamawhen he was first elected in 2008.
In a speech delivered after his victory on the 4th day of November , 2008, Obama said :
“Let’s resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
“So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other. “Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.”Mr. Akinremi said the act was “unethical” .
“It is immoral to plagiarize other people’s work, but even worse to use dishonesty to launch a campaign about honesty.
Mr. Akinremi said : “When you use another person’s work without acknowledgement, you have plagiarized. You simply pretend as if it is your own. It is unethical. It makes a mess of the campaign from the start. That is what Buhari has done, nobody will believe in the ‘change begins with me’ campaign, because it was built on lies,”
Presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said the presidency would investigate the allegation.
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