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