Even President Buhari’s Inauguration Speech “I belong to nobody” was Plagiarised (See Details)

As controversies continue to trail President Mohammadu Buhari’s plagiarised speech during the launch of “Change Begins With Me” reorientation campaign in Abuja last week, it has also been discovered that his inaugural speech was plagiarised.

A part of President Buhari’s speech (right) contained largely the same arrangement of words and emotional outburst that President Obama used in his 2008 victory speech (left) after he was elected the first American black president.

The “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody”, phrase from President Buhari’s speech delivered after his swearing in on May 29, 2015 was lifted from the lyrics of a 1960s song by rock group, War, in a song titled Out of Nowhere.

The song is off an album called Black Man’s Burdon.

Formed in 1969, War was a musical crossover band which fused elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues, and reggae. The band also transcended racial and cultural barriers with a multi-ethnic line-up.

Listen to the song where the phrase is used :

Click here for the entire lyrics of the song. http://www.lyricsaction.com/e/eric+burdon+++war/out+of+nowhere-lyrics.htm

 

Meanwhile, the Presidency has responded to reports that President Buhari plagiarized president Barack Obama’s speech at the launch of “Change Begins With Me” reorientation campaign in Abuja last week

Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Shehu Garba, says the official responsible for the speech will be sanctioned

Garba Shehu said; :The Presidency wishes to respond to a story on alleged plagiarism in a Presidential Speech that has been trending for most of today.

“The Presidency observed that the similarities between a paragraph in President Obama’s 2008 Victory Speech and what the President read in paragraph nine of the sixteen-paragraph while inaugurating the ‘Change begins with me’ are too close to be passed as coincidence.

“There was a mistake by an overzealous administration staff and we regret that this has happened.

“A Deputy Director in the Presidency has accepted responsibility for the insertion of the contentious paragraphs even when a query to him was being typed.

“This serious oversight will be investigated thoroughly and appropriate punishment meted.

“The Presidency, once again regrets this unfortunate incident. Measures have been put in place to ensure that this does not happen again.

“President Muhammadu Buhari admonished Nigerians to move past incident and focus on the message of change which the country needs in order to restore our cherished value systems.”