The ruling New Patriotic Party, addressing a Press Conference in Accra, today has strongly indicated that President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo can not be held responsible for plagiarism.

After Nana Addo’s January 7th investiture, parts of his inaugural speech has been identified to be lifted from speeches of former presidents of the United States of America.

Nana Obiri Boahen, General Secretary of the NPP, said whilst addressing the conference that what happened was not intellectual theft.

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He said: “The NDC and their apologists refer to portions of Nana Akufo-Addo’s inaugural speech and described his conduct as ‘intellectual dishonesty and academic fraud.’ The question to ask is who is the original source of the words used by President Akufo-Addo? Certainly not [former] president Bush. Those words were used by President Wildrow Wilson. Since that high profile submission by President Wildrow Wilson, 13 US presidents have used those same words in their inaugural addresses so who has used whose words?”

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“The truth is that, the biographer of President Wildrow Wilson acknowledged that those words were not original from President Wilson. The original person who rendered that powerful sermon remains unknown” Nana Obiri Boahen added.

Nevertheless, it is not just the “Wildrow Wilson/ George Bush speech” Nana Addo used that has been identified as plagiarized.

BBC has also identified other excerpts from Nana Addo’s speech that was directly copied from  Bill Clinton’s 1993 inaugural speech, so what exactly is the NPP putting across?

Quotes via CitiFmOnline.com