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.
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 Shehu
SSA to the President
(Media & Publicity)
September 16, 2016

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When I said this guy no go school unna say Na lie some even say he school in us.

Everything na investigation for them even when it is clear. They can only deceive their zombies.

APC AND BUHARI are record breakers from padded budget to padded speech. Everything about this government is deceit and propaganda.

I reserve my comment, till I hear from our spokesman FAYOSE.

Dumb set of people

I don't think it's the President's fault that his speech was copied from that of Obama because that speech was entrusted to someone to write it. Hardly you see any President that write his/her speech. That aide of a guy deliberately wanted the President to be embarrassed. He sure knows what plagiarism is. If I was the President, I'll make sure I embarrass him too. I hate incompetence. He should have told Buhari that he won't be able to handle the task rather than causing him embarrassment.

so who is taking the hit for plagiarising the "change begins with me" idea. JOKERS

is this man for real?...
Now Buhari will blame an aide for plagiarism.

So Buhari didn't revise or read the speech
write up before that day?, or he was giving the speech write up to read for us that very moment abi.

Buhari has been breaking records upandan.
Dumpest presido Eva luveth....just continue.

Let me still pray my Prayer before I sleep.

OUR FATHER!
WHO ACT IN heaven
HALLOWED BE THY NAME,
THY 2019 THY COME FAST FAST

I just like it when mistakes were admitted straight forward

samuelson06:
I don't think it's the President's fault that his speech was copied from that of Obama because that speech was entrusted to someone to write it. Hardly you see any President that write his/her speech. That aide of a guy deliberately wanted the President to be embarrassed. He sure knows what plagiarism is. If I was the President, I'll make sure I embarrass him too. I hate incompetence. He should have told Buhari that he won't be able to handle the task rather than causing him embarrassment.

as people dey reason with their a*ss sometimes dey baffle me.

so Buhari didn't go through the write up before presenting the speech abi?

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Which kind national embarrassment be this

Opharhe:
Which kind national embarrassment be this

That is the new standard of people serving Nigeria today.

They cannot even write their own sppech without copying Obama or President of Brazil's speech.

Obe gemolowo omo ju obe le................,send them all away,change begins with you remember,awon ole afajo bi ti alabaun,simple speech they couldnt put 2gether and they now get home and start telling how they led their class during their school days to their kids.oose.

From the way the President murdered the speech, even if Obama were to be listening, he wouldn't have realized that its contents were derived from his 2008 speech.

Mr Buhari is always sanctioning his aides over any Issue in which he is clearly at fault...

This is what NEPA certificate causes.
Go school Buhari no gree!

The incompetence of buhari's team is exactly what is telling on our economy

This is bad for the country.... Even with so much aides this still manage to happen btw what was his COS doing that he couldn't go through it before his boss read it

it's so amazing how Nigerians got to these mess...what happens to revision Mr fresident .....who sold this cattle rearler to the public. ..chai.!!! could this be a dream or reality




this one is beyond one chance


Apc sold a dummy to 180ml people

samuelson06:
I don't think it's the President's fault that his speech was copied from that of Obama because that speech was entrusted to someone to write it. Hardly you see any President that write his/her speech. That aide of a guy deliberately wanted the President to be embarrassed. He sure knows what plagiarism is. If I was the President, I'll make sure I embarrass him too. I hate incompetence. He should have told Buhari that he won't be able to handle the task rather than causing him embarrassment.

A bad workman always quarrel with his tools. Pay peanuts baboons will work for you. Buhari is responsible for any disappoint he gets. He came with false change to deceive Nigerians and up in the hands of deceptive cabinet. FROM PADDED BUDGET TO PADDED SPEECH.

samuelson06:
I don't think it's the President's fault that his speech was copied from that of Obama because that speech was entrusted to someone to write it. Hardly you see any President that write his/her speech. That aide of a guy deliberately wanted the President to be embarrassed. He sure knows what plagiarism is. If I was the President, I'll make sure I embarrass him too. I hate incompetence. He should have told Buhari that he won't be able to handle the task rather than causing him embarrassment.

Guy are you this slow or you are being mischievous! Are you implying that an aide is the person addressing the nation? Was the message that of an aide or that of a President? Whose idea is the content of such speech? So a seating president will have no idea about what he intends to tell Nigerians, rather waiting for the idea and speech of an "overzealous aide"? Did the president himself not read his speeches and ask questions before coming to the public?

Please, there are excusable mistakes. This is obviously not one of such. Imagine what you guys would have written if this happened under GEJ.

Which way Naija......

Enough reason for Buhari to resign

This government is always looking for scape goats for the architect of their problems

Govt of 1 week - 1 trouble.
They keep adding embarrassments to the hardship already experienced by Nigerians.
I'm sure this would have been denied if it wasn't widely published.