The President-elect Gen Buhari met with Mr. Tunde Thompson, one of the journalists he jailed for disobeying Decree 4 during his military administration in 1984.
Decree 4 was promulgated by Gen Buhari to checkmate press reports against his military regime, a policy many believed was against the freedom of speech.
Buhari and Tunde Thompson met at a media parley the president-elect had with his media campaign team in Abuja yesterday May 5.
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 in spite of PDP’s hate campaign.
“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.