APC shuts official website after publishing plagiarised manifesto

LAGOS, Nigeria – The ruling All Progressive Congress(APC) has shut down its website after publishing plagiarised content. The content is believed to have been copied from the manifestoes of one of the former presidential aspirants in the United States.

The content was part of the Next Level agenda published on the official website of the rulling APC.

In fact, one section of the Next Level manifesto begins with the statement, “Our first priority is keeping America safe and secure,” showing it was copied verbatim and was not edited to fit into what the APC has to offer.

Mr.  Shola Erogbogbo was listed as the admin of the website  with contact email  listed as [email protected]. This is not the first time that the APC has been alleged to be involved in official plagiarism. In September 2016, a part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Change Begins With Me” speech, delivered at the launching of a social initiative against corruption and other vices, was copied from former American president Barack Obama’s 2008 victory speech.

Speech analysts were of the view that the similarities between a paragraph in President Obama’s 2008 victory speech…are too close to be passed as coincidence,” presidential spokesman Garba Shehu said in a statement, adding that an unnamed “overzealous” speechwriter responsible for the plagiarism will face “appropriate sanction”. But since then, nothing was head of the plagiarist as the matter was swept under the carpet.

However, spokesperson for the APC, Lanre Issa-Onilu told the Guardian that the website was hacked by people who have “evil plots”.