Gen Buhari met 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 during his administration in 1984 at a media parley the president elect had with his media campaign team in Abuja yesterday. 

 Mr Thompson who now works with Gen Buhari's media team was appreciated for his forgiveness and willingness to put the past behind, Gen Buhari told him that jailing him, at that time was one of the challenges of his administration then. 

He also 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