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
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