Sunday 18 September 2016

When will President Buhari accept full responsibility for his failures and misdeeds?

Obama and Buhari


With news going round that the president has given a marching order for those who wrote the speech he read strongly signifies that he is not a reading president and that from his campaign to to date, none of his speeches were written by him.

That is to say that even the so called media aids surrounding him including his Information Minister don’t know their left to their right, they are only good at accusing every ‘Tom-Dick and Harry’ for all their failures.

The question being asked by Nigerians is ‘when will President Buhari accept responsibility for all his misdeed? When budget padding saga came up, he out rightly denied it and shifted blames to other people, when he plagiarised the speeches of other world leaders which he read to the world, he also denied it.

Could this be a pointer that his certificate is really questionable?

Read below full details of the order given by Buhari as he pushes the blame of his intellectual crime to members of his kitchen cabinet:

“The Presidency has issued the statement below admitting that the speech read by President Muhammadu Buhari contained insertions plagiarised from a 2008 speech by U.S. President, Barack Obama.”

“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.”

“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 Shehu
SSA to the President
(Media & Publicity)

September 16, 2016

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