Nigerians on Twitter have condemned President Muhammadu Buhari for plagiarising the President Barack Obama's 2008 victory speech.
Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu,
had on Friday, September 16, admitted that the paragraph nine of
Buhari's speech at the 'Change Begins With Me' campaign launch was a 'copy and paste' of Obama's 2008 speech.
He
blamed the reckless insertion on the error of an ambitious staff in the
Presidency, saying the matter would be investigated and the offender
punished accordingly.
Al though, multiple sources say, the erred staff has been identified and sacked.
Nonetheless,
Nigerians have continued to mock the President, describing the incident
as embarrassing and
hypocritical of the leader demanding 'Change' from
his followers.
With the harsh tag
#TheStolenSpeech, which is currently trending on the microblogging site
Twitter, some said the Presidency did not take responsibility until BBC
reported the plagiarism storh
It
also emerged that Buhari's popular quote from his 2015 inauguration
speech - "I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody" was copied from Charles de Gaulle's 1958 speech.
Charles
de Gaulle was a French army officer and statesman. He was the leader of
Free France and the head of the Provisional Government of the French
Republic.
See some of the Twitter reactions below:
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