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
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