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Ideologies in President Muhammadu Buhari's Inaugural speech

Ideology has a significant impact on the characteristics and behaviours of leaders. It is the vehicle through which we can comprehend our leaders, and they can understand us. This paper reveals the ideological dimensions embedded in President Muhammadu Buhari's speech, mainly his Inaugural Spee...

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Main Authors: Tanko, Abubakar Musa AlKali, Ismail, Muhd Zulkifli, Abdul Jabar, Mohd Azidan, Mustapha, Nik Farhan
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Published: Medknow Publications and Media 2022
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/101776/
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spelling my.upm.eprints.1017762024-03-18T07:00:09Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/101776/ Ideologies in President Muhammadu Buhari's Inaugural speech Tanko, Abubakar Musa AlKali Ismail, Muhd Zulkifli Abdul Jabar, Mohd Azidan Mustapha, Nik Farhan Ideology has a significant impact on the characteristics and behaviours of leaders. It is the vehicle through which we can comprehend our leaders, and they can understand us. This paper reveals the ideological dimensions embedded in President Muhammadu Buhari's speech, mainly his Inaugural Speech delivered in 2015. It is carried out using a Critical Discourse Analysis technique. Van Dijk's (2004) Political Ideological Strategies and Wodak's (2005) Discursive Strategies of Positive Self- and Negative Other-Presentation were incorporated to achieve the study's goal. The findings showed that Van Dijk's actor description, positive self-presentation, and negative other-presentation methods, as well as Wodak's chosen strategies of argumentation and perspectivation, were helpful in delving into the ideologies embedded in Buhari's speech. Five strategies proved to be beneficial devices in exploring the fundamentally embedded ideologies in Buhari's discourse: "Nigerian nationalism" and "nation's betrayal". Nigerian nationalism was the ideological foundation of Buhari to reform and rebuild the country. In contrast, the betrayal of the homeland and the nation was the ideological foundation of the People's Democratic Party, Boko Haram, and the Niger Delta militias. Therefore, it could be perceived that the social acts of both the in-group and the out-group were formed and structured in terms of these two ideological foundations. Medknow Publications and Media 2022 Article PeerReviewed Tanko, Abubakar Musa AlKali and Ismail, Muhd Zulkifli and Abdul Jabar, Mohd Azidan and Mustapha, Nik Farhan (2022) Ideologies in President Muhammadu Buhari's Inaugural speech. Journal of Pharmaceutical Negative Results, 13 (9). 5717 - 5729. ISSN 0976-9234; ESSN: 2229-7723 https://www.pnrjournal.com/index.php/home/article/view/4753/5371 10.47750/pnr.2022.13.S09.693
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description Ideology has a significant impact on the characteristics and behaviours of leaders. It is the vehicle through which we can comprehend our leaders, and they can understand us. This paper reveals the ideological dimensions embedded in President Muhammadu Buhari's speech, mainly his Inaugural Speech delivered in 2015. It is carried out using a Critical Discourse Analysis technique. Van Dijk's (2004) Political Ideological Strategies and Wodak's (2005) Discursive Strategies of Positive Self- and Negative Other-Presentation were incorporated to achieve the study's goal. The findings showed that Van Dijk's actor description, positive self-presentation, and negative other-presentation methods, as well as Wodak's chosen strategies of argumentation and perspectivation, were helpful in delving into the ideologies embedded in Buhari's speech. Five strategies proved to be beneficial devices in exploring the fundamentally embedded ideologies in Buhari's discourse: "Nigerian nationalism" and "nation's betrayal". Nigerian nationalism was the ideological foundation of Buhari to reform and rebuild the country. In contrast, the betrayal of the homeland and the nation was the ideological foundation of the People's Democratic Party, Boko Haram, and the Niger Delta militias. Therefore, it could be perceived that the social acts of both the in-group and the out-group were formed and structured in terms of these two ideological foundations.
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author Tanko, Abubakar Musa AlKali
Ismail, Muhd Zulkifli
Abdul Jabar, Mohd Azidan
Mustapha, Nik Farhan
spellingShingle Tanko, Abubakar Musa AlKali
Ismail, Muhd Zulkifli
Abdul Jabar, Mohd Azidan
Mustapha, Nik Farhan
Ideologies in President Muhammadu Buhari's Inaugural speech
author_facet Tanko, Abubakar Musa AlKali
Ismail, Muhd Zulkifli
Abdul Jabar, Mohd Azidan
Mustapha, Nik Farhan
author_sort Tanko, Abubakar Musa AlKali
title Ideologies in President Muhammadu Buhari's Inaugural speech
title_short Ideologies in President Muhammadu Buhari's Inaugural speech
title_full Ideologies in President Muhammadu Buhari's Inaugural speech
title_fullStr Ideologies in President Muhammadu Buhari's Inaugural speech
title_full_unstemmed Ideologies in President Muhammadu Buhari's Inaugural speech
title_sort ideologies in president muhammadu buhari's inaugural speech
publisher Medknow Publications and Media
publishDate 2022
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/101776/
https://www.pnrjournal.com/index.php/home/article/view/4753/5371
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