Jonathan doing well — PDP

The National leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday said it was proud of the manner in which Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan has carried on with the affairs of governance since President Umaru Yar’Adua left the shores of Nigeria for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.
According to the party, the Vice President has actually taken care of all issues that required presidential attention which it said he had addressed those areas that would have created a vacuum, just as the PDP stressed that the Vice president’s performance was contrary to claims by the opposition that there was near absence of real leadership at the federal level.
It said that rather than criticize the government, the present administration must be applauded for its achievements in office so far.
Speaking yesterday in Abuja, the National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Professor Rufai Ahmed Alkali said, “People are sitting down outside and defining the dos and don’ts of government. The reality of it is that we are operating a system and so far to our knowledge, there has been no evidence of breakdown of this system.
“The Vice President is there as the Vice President of this country and he has done extremely well in the past few weeks since the President traveled outside the country. All these issues of what should be done or what should not be done is the prerogative of government”.
Alkali who noted that the opposition tried to set agenda for government over President Yar’Adua’s health situation by constructing various scenarios, said they do not have the right to do so, adding that it was  unnecessary to join issue with the opposition, just as he stressed that there was no pint wasting energy to convince the opposition against the backdrop that there was nothing one would say or do to impress the opposition.