The presidency has reacted to allegations in the media that President Buhari’s plagiarised a 2008 speech of Barack Obama when he inaugurated the ‘Change begins with me’ campaign.

This is contained in a statement released via Twitter on Friday by the senior special assistant to the president on Media and Publicity Mallam Garba Shehu.

The presidency said the “coincidence” was an oversight by one of its Deputy Directors who has already been queried.

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