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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