[PHOTO] Buhari Meets Journalist He Jailed Over 30 Years Ago + What He Had To Say

The President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, on
Tuesday met with Tunde Thompson, one of the
journalists jailed for violating Decree 4 in 1984
when he was a military Head of State. Their
acquaintance came to being when the president-
elect hosted members of his Media Team and
Social Media Influencers at the Defence House,
Abuja.
The President-elect cracked jokes with Thompson
and praised him for rising above his jail
experience to forgive and support his presidential
bid. He reminded Thompson, who is a member of
his media team, that what happened under his
military regime was one of the challenges of that
period. Buhari also applauded his campaign
media team led by Mallam Shehu Garba for
running “a very decent media campaign” despite
the hate campaigns mounted against him by the
Peoples Democratic Party.
“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,” he said.
The President-elect specifically commended Garba
for providing leadership that led to the success of
his team. He said, “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
renumeration to stall the work at any point in
time. You continued to give your best.” The
President-elect further acknowledged the efforts
of the Independent National Electoral Commission
for deploying technology in the conduct of the
last election.