A former spokesperson to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has knocked the campaign organisation of President Muhammadu Buhari over alleged plagiarism of campaign agenda and logo titled Next Level.
Omokri in a statement claimed that the campaign slogan and logo was plagiarised from a thesis authored by on Kelly Costner, an Associate Professor of Winthrop University in South Carolina, USA
“Even though Nigerians already associate the Buhari administration with plagiarism and lack of originality ever since they plagiarized a speech by the legendary French leader, Charles de Gaulle (‘I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody’), it still comes as a shock to us that the All Progressives Congress would be so brazen as to steal the intellectual property of an institution and pass it off as its own.
“This act clearly shows that the entire Next Level document is built on a lie and Nigerians are warned that the Buhari government has no Next Level plans. Rather, they only have copy and paste plans,” he said.
Omokri urged Nigerians ‘to contrast the stolen ‘plans’ of the Buhari Campaign with the Atiku Plan which is original, workable and will Get Nigeria Working Again’.
“Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s plans are the brainchild of a man who has succeeded in his private business. A man who has a plan to restructure Nigeria. A man who has a plan to proactively double the size of our Gross Domestic Product. A man who has a plan to provide Nigeria’s youth with a world class education (as he has successfully done in his private schools). And a man who has a plan to reduce maternal mortality to the barest minimum,” he added.
