A day after President Goodluck Jonathan formally declared his bid for re-election, Saharareporters has discovered that a part of the speech he read at the official launch of his campaign was substantially lifted from a 2006 address given by former Vice President Abubakar Atiku when he announced his entry into the 2007 presidential election.

Mr. Jonathan yesterday announced his presidential bid at Eagle Square, Abuja in a ceremony graced by crowds mobilized by state governors, featuring masquerades, musicians and half-unclothed men. 

In the 30-paragraph speech delivered with the aid of a teleprompter, amid loud cheers from his supporters, Jonathan said, “Our country is at the threshold of a new era; an era that beckons for a new kind of leadership; a leadership that is uncontaminated by the prejudices of the past; a leadership that is committed to change; a leadership that reinvents government, to solve the everyday problems that confront the average Nigerian.”

The rhetoric resonated with the crowd, which cheered him on. The crowd was obviously unaware that the paragraph was a plagiarized version of an old speech by Atiku. The former vice president used similar phrases in a speech he read at the Old Parade Ground in Abuja on November 25, 2006.

In paragraph nine of his four-year-old speech, Atiku declared: “Today, as we stand on the threshold of a new era Nigeria requires a new kind of leadership, a leadership committed to this change process.

“We need a leadership that is not hampered or constrained by the regressive politics of the past or the unproductive ideologies of the present. Nigeria deserves a proven, committed and experienced leader who knows how to reinvent government to help solve the real problems our people today.”

One of our sources said that Jonathan’s speechwriters “tried hard to conceal the stealing of another man’s intellectual property, by changing a few words here and throwing a few words there,” adding, “but the evidence of plagiarism came out clearly all the same.”

The source, a professor of linguistics, said the similarities between the two paragraphs “are just too glaring to be regarded as a coincidence.”



http://www.saharareporters.com/news-page/presidential-race-declaration-jonathan-caught-plagiarism

arghhhhhh

what a dull president
ktwewwww so much for a good speech
Rubbish!!!!!!!!

soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

all presidential speeches sound alike even barack obama barrowed some things for JFK.

employee of the month goes to Ferari =hes working really hard on online propaganda

Your Award is waiting for you in bayelsa state-

And where did Atiku take it from!

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Has anybody noticed the strange (but not unexpected) fact that the article does not tell us Jonathans own words it just goes;

In paragraph nine of his four-year-old speech, Atiku declared: “Today, as we stand on the threshold of a new era Nigeria requires a new kind of leadership, a leadership committed to this change process.

“We need a leadership that is not hampered or constrained by the regressive politics of the past or the unproductive ideologies of the present. Nigeria deserves a proven, committed and experienced leader who knows how to reinvent government to help solve the real problems our people today.”

One of our sources said that Jonathan’s speechwriters “tried hard to conceal the stealing of another man’s intellectual property, by changing a few words here and throwing a few words there,” adding, “but the evidence of plagiarism came out clearly all the same.”

Helloooooooooooo, we can't just make claims anymore, they've got to be backed!
So, we know what Atiku said, now somebody must point to the lines Jonathan lifted or bow their heads in shame (as usual).

Your probably read too quickly. The article pointed to paragraph 30 of GEJ's speech. Now the issue is whether this was actually paragraph 30 of his speech. Can't be took careful in this political season.

In any case, this is a non-issue.

Beaf:

Has anybody noticed the strange (but not unexpected) fact that the article does not tell us Jonathans own words it just goes;

Helloooooooooooo, we can't just make claims anymore, they've got to be backed!
So, we know what Atiku said, now somebody must point to the lines Jonathan lifted or bow their heads in shame (as usual).

^
Yes, my bad.

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I hope you all know what it means for someone to steal  another man’s intellectual property


He should be sued,

imagine a president that cannot think for himself.

ferari90 has come again! His anger is becoming uncontrollable because his daddy, IBB has been trashed

@ferari90

I am not surprised that GEJ would indulge in act of plagiarism. The dude can not teach first grade pupils a class in civil obedience. He has already flouted section 7-2 C of PDP constitution, the same clause which saw him as VP.

ferari90:

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I hope you all know what it means for someone to steal  another man’s intellectual property


He should be sued,

imagine a president that cannot think for himself.

Which President write his own speech??

All these people talking about Plagiarism. Do they know what Plagiarism is?
Some people just want to talk.

Every law breaker is clueless. It is very shameful to watch as most Nigerian are cracking their voices in support of a candidate who has no respect for ordinances in democratic setting such as Nigeria.

GJE has never looked as a smart man. He looks dull, talk dull, walk dull and steal dull.

13volts:

GJE has never looked as a smart man. He looks dull, talk dull, walk dull and steal dull.

i think this is the smartest statement you ever made in all of your whatever life. . . . . madam smart, please tell me how smart people look? Its always easy to claim being smart from the comfort of anonymity.

I refused to be annoyed

13volts:

GJE has never looked as a smart man. He looks dull, talk dull, walk dull and steal dull.

Duh. At least we can all see where his 'dullness' has taken him: the pinnacle of personal achievement (President & Commander in Chief). Where has your self-acclaimed 'smartness' taken you, oh 'smart' one?

@ferado and his gap-toothed , thieving evil one.

There is nothing that has never been said before all you have to do is to coin it you own way. This is simply a case of mere coincidence of thought within the confnes of permissible originality in academic writing. Obama, Clinton, Bush, Blair and other world leaders and their speechwriters frequently review several famous speeches and quotes for parallel incidences in design and delivery.

I do not like the man Goodluck for other reasons, but making a reason out of this would be stupid!
Please can his thread be closed so we can focus on other issues?? MOD? Anyone?

@ Dede1

Bring out the copied Atiku's lines and let's analyse d similarity OR STFU

@ ferado

ferari90:

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I hope you all know what it means for someone to steal  another man’s intellectual property


He should be sued,

imagine a president that cannot think for himself.

Bros bring out d speech make we see na. U dey shout smoke everywhere but u fail to show us d fire. If IBB had stopped paying u campaign allowance u better go find anoda job

I am sure Atiku must have taken the sentences from some where!

[size=14pt]Jealousy of Jonathan![/size]

[size=14pt]IBB is most definetely gonna meet his nemesis. The blood of hundreds of innocent souls is wheeling him to certain doom.

. . .Ejigbo plane crash, Dele Giwa, June 12, MKO Abiola, vatsa (he was best man at vatsa's marriage). . . and thousands of other innocent souls.
Innocent blood is calling, calling, calling, calling, calling, calling, calling, calling, calling, calling. . .

Vengeance, Justice, Doom! [/size]

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who is this drama queen making a fuss out of nothing

I just try to think what Beaf will have spew here if it was another candidate (say Atiku or IBB) that was caught lifting someone's intellectual property - without including reference Pathetic!

I do not see anybody's intellectual property here. English has words that you can put together in pushing forward an Idea.
Each word has same meaning, while the expression/word arrangement may be different.
Idea can never be a monopoly. Thousands can have same Idea and express those Idea in different way.
GoodLuck may not be the saviour, but also I know he is not a devil like your IBB and Atiku.

^^ See defense, na waooo!
And who told you that anybody who is not drumming support for GEJ is automatically an IBB/Atiku fan? Stop these pathetic assumptions - its becoming lame. By the way I wasn't refering to you but to Mr Abuse Beaf. Or are you same.