Following
the outcry that trailed President Buhari's presentation of a
plagiarized speech, the man behind the write-up has been named.
Mamman Daura and President Buhari
According to a report by SaharaReporters, two sources at
the Presidency in Abuja have revealed that Mamman Daura, a nephew of
President Muhammadu Buhari and arguably the biggest power player in the
government, was the source of a major speech delivered by the Nigerian
president in which the words of US President Barack Obama were
plagiarized.
The two sources claimed that Mr. Daura had hijacked the task of
providing speeches for the Nigerian president, adding that he often
threw away draft speeches that he did not commission.
Asked whether the president’s nephew personally wrote the
controversial speech that stole Mr. Obama’s words without attribution,
the sources said that Mr. Daura certainly produced the speech.
“It is possible he wrote it himself, or he went and asked somebody else to go and write it and bring,” said one source. The other stated, “I can tell you that nobody writes speech anymore for President Buhari but Mamman Daura.”
According to the sources, Mr. Daura was behind President Buhari’s
inauguration speech, which lifted a famous quote from the late French
leader Charles de Gaulle. They said the president’s nephew was also
solely responsible for writing or commissioning Mr. Buhari’s now
infamous speech entreating Nigerians to accept the idea of “Change begins with me.”
SaharaReporters reports that the sources also disclosed
that the Presidency was trying to fool the public through its spokesman,
Garba Shehu, who said a deputy director had written the now widely
ridiculed speech. Mr. Shehu had also declared that the speechwriter
would be punished.
Investigations discovered that Mr. Attah Esa is the only deputy
director attached to the State House media office. His duties are
concerned only with newspaper reviews.
The sources disclosed that, unlike former Presidents Olusegun
Obasanjo, Umaru Yar'Adua, and Goodluck Jonathan, President Buhari does
not have an identified official speechwriter. SaharaReporters learned
that presidential aides, Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu, often only get to
see President Buhari’s speeches when such speeches are distributed at
official functions. “That’s why Nigerians no longer get an advance
synopsis of presidential speeches online as happened during Jonathan’s
era,” said one source.
The same source added: “Under President Buhari, all types of
speeches, whether on the economy, education or terrorism, are organized
solely by Mamman Daura, who thinks he knows everything. Buhari’s
Personal Assistant, Sabiu Yusuf (popularly known as Tunde Idiagbon) then
types the speeches.”
Sources disclosed that Mr. Daura even discouraged any input from MDA. “He is known not to use drafts submitted by MDAs, even on technical issues such as budget, climate change and maternal health,” one of them said.
During Jonathan's Presidency, Oronto Douglas, who died last year,
served as the official speechwriter. Draft speeches from MDAs were
submitted to him for vetting, and he consulted with the agencies
throughout in order to ensure objectivity and correctness.
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- SaharaReporters
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