Nigerian president apologizes for plagiarizing Obama speech

Posted by | September 17, 2016 09:30 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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President Muhammadu Buhari apologized for plagiarizing President Obama’s 2008 victory speech and will punish whoever is responsible.

(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

Several sentences were almost identical to Obama’s in a speech Buhari made Sept. 8 launching his campaign “Change Begins With Me.”

Buhari said, “We must resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship, pettiness and immaturity that have poisoned our country for so long.”

Obama said, “Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.”

Obama and Buhari meet next week at the U.N.

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3 responses to Nigerian president apologizes for plagiarizing Obama speech

  1. Jungle_Bhoy September 17th, 2016 at 09:35

    Actually he was plagiarizing a Trump speech which the Teflon Don stole from Obama.

  2. KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker September 17th, 2016 at 09:42

    More class and accountability than Melania Trump.

  3. bpollen September 18th, 2016 at 04:20

    I wonder if he knows that prince that keeps emailing me.

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