Buhari meets with a journalist he jailed when he was a military leader

President-elect Gen Buhari met with Mr
Tunde Thompson, one of the journalists
he jailed for disobeying Decree 4 during
his
administration in 1984. Decree 4
was enacted by Gen Buhari to
checkmate the authenticity of press
reports, a policy many believed was
against the freedom of speech. Both
men met at a media parley the
president elect had with his media
campaign team in Abuja yesterday May
5th. Mr Thompson now works with Gen
Buhari's media team. Gen Buhari told
him that jailing him, at that time was
one of the challenges of his
administration then. He appreciated his
media team for carrying out a decent
campaign for him during the election
"I want to commend you
especially for two things. First, is
the decent media campaign you
conducted despite the PDP’s
dirty tactics, you stayed focused
on issues and avoided the
temptation to sling mud. I thank
you for your uncommon
motivation to do the work.
Despite the lean budget on
which we ran our campaign, you
did not allow the lack of
adequate remuneration to stall
the work at any point in time.
You continued to give your
best"he said