Ado J. G. Muhammad hails from, commended President Goodluck Jonathan for appointing the medical doctor, describing the action as putting “a square peg in a square hole”. Dr. Muhammad currently works to achieve seven major objectives at the NPHCDA. The objectives are: To control preventable diseases; Improve access to basic health services; Improve quality of care; Strengthen institutions in the healthcare system; Develop a high-performing and empowered health workforce across the country. Other goals are to strengthen partnerships and engage with communities regularly to get feedback. In recognition of his outstanding achievements at the NPHCDA, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan honoured Dr. Muhammad with the
Goodluck Jonathan gone through the era of the strongman president. It did not solve any problem. For those who think corruption is fought with 'nerves', I hope they know what they are praying for." During his South African magistrate court trial on 2 May 2012, the former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah, insisted that President Jonathan masterminded the October 2010 Independence Day bombing. Okah told the court that President Jonathan and his aides organised the attacks in Abuja in a desperate political strategy to demonise political opponents, including former military President General Ibrahim