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Eugene

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Fri Sep 16, 2016, 08:10 PM Sep 2016

Nigeria's Buhari admits to plagiarizing line from Obama speech

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS | Fri Sep 16, 2016 | 8:05pm EDT

Nigeria's Buhari admits to plagiarizing line from Obama speech

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari plagiarized quotes from U.S. President Barack Obama in a speech promising change in the West African country, his office said on Friday.

Last week, Buhari gave a speech to launch a campaign titled "Change begins with me," part of his credo to end graft in Africa's biggest economy which is gripped by mismanagement and poverty despite sitting on vast energy reserves.

But one paragraph in the speech urging Nigerians not to fall back "on the same partisanship, pettiness and immaturity that have poisoned our country so long" was copied from Obama's victory speech after his election in November 2008.

"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 16-paragraph address... are too close to be passed as coincidence," Buhari's office said in a statement.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-buhari-obama-idUSKCN11M2EX
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