Campaign council: Tinubu's manifesto is not a "copy and paste"

Dr. Musa Babayo, the director of the Tinubu-Shettima Campaign Council's planning, research, and strategy directorate, refuted the opposition Peoples Democratic Party's claim that Bola Tinubu's manifesto was copied. At the PRS campaign council's official opening meeting on Thursday in Abuja, Babayo refuted the assertion.

Dele Momodu, the PDP's director of strategic communications, was accused by Festus Keyamo, the minister of state for labor and employment, of conducting a "cheap" hatchet job to impress his "new paymasters," one week before to the current development. Publisher of Ovation Magazine claimed that MKO Abiola's "Hope '93" manifesto, which was recycled in Buhari's 2015 Action Plan, was plagiarized and used as the basis for Tinubu's 80-page policy document.
He asks the question in his piece, "APC: Renewed hope or forlorn hope?" Momodu stated that it was regrettable that Tinubu was unable to come up with unique ideas and instead chose to mimic the memories of a man who had high hopes for Nigeria.
Babayo responded on Thursday to Momodu's assertion that Tinubu's policy statement was a "clone and paste" of Abiola's "Hope '93" manifesto.

He said, “You know, politicians have a way of distracting their audience from the message. We are taught in business school that management is management, and I know its basic principles are planning, coordination and control. Nobody is going to reinvent the wheel. Issues keep on changing.
“That’s why I am telling you that this manifesto is not ‘copy and paste.’ It is a brand new document that has incorporated the monumental challenges and otherwise in the Nigerian state. In the security challenge that was highlighted in the Hope ’93 manifesto, there was no issue with the Maradi-Kano train line in it. Nigeria of 1993 is different from the one of today.
“I want to dismiss the comment made by the PDP Spokesman. They have a right to talk because we are already ahead of the competition. And when you are ahead of the competition, you should expect those who are following you from behind to try as much they can to shrink your market share. This political market share will continue to expand until we deliver Tinubu and Shettima as president and vice president in 2023.”


References
Punchng, 'Tinubu’s manifesto not ‘copy and paste’ – Campaign council' (online, 2022) <https://punchng.com/tinubus-manifesto-not-copy-and-paste-campaign-council/>.