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.
Buhari met with him when he hosted members of his Media Team and Social Media Influencers at the Defence House, Abuja on Tuesday.
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.”
He added, “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.”
The President-elect particularly 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 remuneration to stall the work at any point in time. You continued to give your best.”
The President-elect also praised the Independent National Electoral Commission for deploying technology in the conduct of the last election.
My President-elect, Nigeria and Nigerians need desciplines, we want our Nigetia image to be redeem for the trash PDP has lead the Nigerians into. It was as the result of PDP past governance that gave birth to every of the behaviour that is prevailing in the life of Nigerians within and outside or internationally. Please we need to be descipline irrespective of the level, we need to be rebirth, we need to sanitise, we need our glory back for the bettermeant of Africa in general. All other Africans were looking towards Nigeria and you(president elect) for your immediate and gradual implementation of desciplinary action on all arms of government and ministries and all parastatals. May GOD guide you and team to take us to our destination. Amen. SAI BUHARI
ReplyDeleteGood talk. We need a little iron hand.
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ReplyDeleteThis is not military regime, the ride won't be easy, coz if you try to force your wish down pple's truth you will surely be shown the way out. Your word is not law anymore.
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