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Wednesday 6 May 2015

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

61 comments:

NaijaDeltaBabe said...

Reconciliation galore

Unknown said...

Wow !!! Making peace is the best thing, cuz one of the powers of the press is to make and unmake politicians...

Marcus said...

Sai baba

Unknown said...

Okay noted. I can see a matured minds here

Abraham Ndu said...

Hmmmmm...ok Comments place..

Dave Mide said...

Now yall see politics ??

BONARIO NNAGS said...

Awww! I'm loving these recent developments in the polity.
This is a good omen, it can only get better from here.
The Change we so desired is here and finally there appears light at the end of the tunnel.

~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA

Bishop Dammy said...

We know all would be well.. all sections would smile,, media, journalists, traders, civil servants.. by the grace of God. Psalm 1:3

RM & KD said...

then he was having obiakpor inside him. but this time I can see the new saint Barnabas buhari..

Unknown said...

Dats it ppl shld knw dat dis is nt a military govt. Every1 shld come togeda n nt hold grudges let bygone b bygone! + dis shldnt mean dat all d ppl he jailed shld start visiting o,becos Nigerians we are opportunists!

Unknown said...

Dats it ppl shld knw dat dis is nt a military govt. Every1 shld come togeda n nt hold grudges let bygone b bygone! + dis shldnt mean dat all d ppl he jailed shld start visiting o,becos Nigerians we are opportunists!

Anonymous said...

And therein lies one of the reasons pdp lost.They didn't use professionals.using vuvuzelas(FFK,fayose,abati) backfired on them .

All they managed to do was win sympathy votes for GMB for those that were undecided.Quite a number of people voted against because they couldn't bear the thought of listening to Mrs Jonathan,fayose,Abati,FFK for another 4 years.It wasn't about Mr. president anymore at some point.it was about the type of people he chose to surround himself with.(koro,buruji,bode George,deziani,FFK,fayose etc).

Vuvuzelas are noisy and loud but have no rhythm.(substance)

Unknown said...

From trekkers to d jailed..

Unknown said...

This is what's up... Buhari is a great man

Donald Official said...

someday are like that

Unknown said...

He ws jailed 4 disobedience nice 1. I op he as learnt his lesson now. Dey shd work 2geda n make a gud team

Unknown said...

He ws jailed 4 disobedience nice 1. I op he as learnt his lesson now. Dey shd work 2geda n make a gud team

Unknown said...

Okay fine

Danny Cruz said...

Una sure say dis man don change? Chai!!!! Dis old man go jail everybody wen he enter o! #endtime_signs...... *biggrin*

INDIGENOUS LIB said...

Na wa oooooo.... I Can imagine how this man feels

Bonita Bislam said...

Truly acting like a repentant Democrat.I respect that

Unknown said...

Sai Buhari.quite hopefully he would accommodate all those who are willing to work in honesty with him despite previous history.

Walata said...

Everybody is now buhari's friend even his previous enemies want to identify with success

Anonymous said...

Chai yoruba pple ehhn ... Assuming buhari was in apga tell me how many yorubas will vote him in .... Even dat idiot called soyinka will castigate the hell outta him .. apc is the combination of 2 very ethnical parties acn being yoruba and cpc being hausa .. dats d only reason these yoruba pple e.g soyinka supports him

Unknown said...

Its good for him to make peace with all those he offended in the past!!!

Anonymous said...

Linda doesn't seem to like Buhari. Her choice of words when the article is about Buhari is always kinda harsh

Anto said...

There are no eternal enemies .. otherwise there are no eternal friends

AdeAdedeji said...

life is just too good. Just when you think life will never get better. #lesson: always let go of the miseries of the past, lest you lose the fortunes of the present. #LivingRight

Anonymous said...

BORING

Unknown said...

WOW...Touching story!

i need a hug,:somebody.


***JAWFUR***

Unknown said...

Hehehehe! Season of meeting with all former jailed people. Linda take note!

Unknown said...

Hehehehe! Season of meeting with all former jailed people. Linda take note!

Anonymous said...

Nah I don't accept this. Nke a bu ihe a n'akpo bullsheeti

Unknown said...

Jailing him then was indeed 'one of the challenges of the administration', and I bet this administration will not be void of challenges either, so many other press men or even ordinary citizens will be jailed, so Naija make una brace up oo, for the jail terms coming, this man is unapologetic!

Bosslady said...

All na wash!!!

Pidgin Mistress said...

Hmmm

Anonymous said...

THOMPSON SAI D TRUTH AND SHAME D DEVIL N NOT SAY XPECTANT FAVOUR SPEECH.....TOMJERRYSWIT

Unknown said...

We pray his repentance is for real.






Busy Fingers.

Jagz said...

thumbs up mr. Thompson... u You r true bridge builder. He let bygones be bygones. Way to go Nigerians not the hate campaigns the outgoing pres. paid to be aired

Unknown said...

Ok.

Anonymous said...

Now this is a true leader. Reconcilation.

ary said...

NA SO! Mending fences and building new bridges, wise man

Anonymous said...

Awwwww that's good..

Lindodo post my Comment before I provoke.

Anonymous said...

Sai Buhari

JOYCHY said...

Hmmmmmmmm......it takes a real man 2 do this. Kudos 2u sir.
#Loyalty!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Story 4 d gods

yawanow said...

Interesting reunion.
I hope with this democratic dispensation, freedom of speech would be embraced.

Unknown said...

Good to know.

Unknown said...

With everyone meeting everyone, when will i meet Aunty Linda? or should i trek before i meet you? since 2013

Anonymous said...

Weird.

Unknown said...

Ok

knowurway.com said...

Awww nice one

Anonymous said...

LEAN BUDGET!!!! Ahhh this man can lie like this???? All the private jet they were flying, Chatham house visit to London, all the money they were sharing;, clothes they were changing every second, Ha!!! This people think say we stupid! Omor, I use to respect this man but since he became president elect, na just to dey lie anyhow. There is God oh!

Juleslouis said...

I bet GMB is regretting most of d things he did back then as a military officer.

Anonymous said...

RUBBISH. DID BUHARI ALSO ANNUL THE JAIL TERM? WHAT ABOUT THE PRECIOUS TIME OF HIS LIFE HE SPENT IN PRISON FOR DOING HIS JOB INNOCENTLY. PLEASE NIGERIANS, FOR HOW LONG SHALL WE CONTINUE TO DECEIVE OURSELVES? BAD ROLE MODELS.

Anonymous said...

Chai your igbo brothers.your Jim nwobodo visited him too.be there commenting you hear,no wear your red cap follow join.

IBK OF GOD said...

Must u refer to a man old enough to be ur dad as an idiot?

Welcome to Bookybam's Blog said...

Dey too r looking for political appointment. Can't blame them

Subomi said...

whats with making a big deal out of what happened over a decade ago, peeps got to learn to move on

Unknown said...

Wareva

Unknown said...

Forgive and forget

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