Now that the obvious has happened, the next step would be to face it. It was in the song 'now that we found love what are we going to do with it', that a friend captured the Yar'adua Presidency. Now that the impossible has been made possible, is there hope, what would Yar'adua do with the Presidency.

Before I go far I have before now stated that I have no personal grudge against Yar'adua and that I would only judge him based on his policies, his action or inaction. I have only mourned the fact that it is unfortunate that again the PDP has midwife yet another messiah and I hope that this one would be different.

While I mourned the passing on of my colleagues in a road accident, here in Jos, the eight one died in the hospital last week. Courtesy of an accident that was certainly avoidable but Allah knows best and He wills.

Sadly Tuesday night my entire neighborhood in Jos here was home to armed robbers, it was a horrible experience with boys numbering close to 18, nine house were raided and valuables carted. By the time the Police arrived, the robbers had concluded what could be refereed to as a successful operation. Infact while the Police was shooting indiscriminately in the air rather than confront the robbers, the robbers still had opportunity to enter one more house.

Through Allah's grace the robbers halted just a house away from mine. For my kids and wife it was a harrowing experience. This was the third of such in various surburbs of the city of Jos.

I am just back from the Teaching Hospital where I had gone to see a friend and I was overwhelmed by the state of confusion in the place despite all the noise of rehabilitation by the past administration of Baba Sege. I overhead a nurse and her colleague narrate how a child almost died just as the parents were running from pillar to post because of bureaucracy, pay here, go there, pick receipt, go to that doctor, see that radiologist and the poor child's life was ebbing away.

In disgust and pain the parents slumped in tears and the doctors were forced to look at the boy, who by then was close to death. As I listened I could not but observe the Servicom desk close to me. And imagine there was nobody on the seat, I choose to see the episode through. The next hour I was still at the Hospital and no one at the desk.

Before I left the hospital I branched the ante-natal section to see a friend and there was my colleague Garba. He told me his wife was being delivered through a cesarean and that she was actually due last week.

But because of Obasanjo's expected visit to commission the Hospital's permanent site, the hospital was temporarily closed down except for emergency.

Some days ago my phone just wont bug, could not make calls neither could I receive, it was the same with a lot of subscribers and yet I watch colorful and colorless adverts and promos of the GSM powerhouses in the nation.

In Plateau an out-going administration stole the State dry, even disappeared with government cars and properties. Akala in Oyo has sacked the whole 33 LGA Chairmen that Ladoja spent money in conducting an election to install. In Sokoto, the monies left by Bafarawa in State coffers is said to have taken a trek, the money is no where to be found says new Governor and former Commissioner produces documents to proof otherwise.

I have been asked by concerned Nigerians at the grassroots, what will happen to the EFCC? This is so because certainly it is too early to see Yar'adua's enemies or will the EFCC now obey the Courts. In the next few weeks, for many Governors it would be courtesy calls, I will also pay my own of such, after all it is chop I chop. What has changed, many more Governors would undertake a 'thank you' tour at government expense and then take an 'on the spot' visits to the same village where they grew up to find out what the problems are.

Godfathers would have started emerging, would Obasanjo be one of such as he is now the 'alpha and omega' of the PDP. Some elected, selected, and rigged in persons would have to start the payback process to sponsors, co-sponsors, godfather, mother and even god-uncle. Do I need again to talk of the fuel increase, Obasanjo's parting gift which might well be an opportunity for Yar'adua's first PR stunt. CV's are flying everywhere in Abuja and various State capitals in the name of we worked for Party A and Candidate B. The political jobbers are everywhere. How could I forget the marabouts, juju men, prophet Jero, Alfa Bilikisu and the likes that predicted victories for various clients. Power intoxicates...absolute power intoxicates absolutely...

For some it would be vendetta galore, others sacks and probes and while others would be stupefied by the amount of wealth and power at their beck and call. So therefore let the looting continue for some, while another set, start afresh.

Is this the beginning of the end or maybe a good thing may yet come out of PDP. The mere fact that we were able to transit, we should beat our chest at a transition badly done, better than the former voice bellowing fellow country men with marshall music. However, will Yar'adua will be able to reform the reform.

My colleagues are no more, because right from Local government to Federal roads we have potholes, deathtraps, and there are cases where we have wells in the middle of the highways. All these despite the claims of billions spent on roads construction and rehabilitation by the last administration. It cost more to build a kilometer of road in Nigeria than anywhere else in the world and yet after few months, these roads are washed away by rain, erosion and man made acts such as burning of tyres.

Our hospital inspite of eight years of investment, the return has been minimal. I beg to ask and also be on record, is it possible that by the next time Yar'adua would have a bout of catarrh he would be treated at the local health facility at Aso Drive? If his deputy damages his tendon would there be doctors on standby to operate him? Would our hospitals by 2011 become the state of art, science and properly commercial driven and accessible to ordinary Nigerians.

Can we midway into this administration park our cars in the lot and not come to see it vandalized? Will this government make the incidents of armed robberies, bank heist and assassinations a thing of the past? In the last eight years we have had deaths, both high and low profile, all unsolved and one solved by the 'disengagement traumatic recall process' of an aged ex-President and abracadabra of Sunday Ehindero.

The task before Mr. Yar'adua is enormous. We have the Niger Delta question. It is a tripod problem, the people, their leaders and Nigeria at large...for the people, they want a stake, the basics of life, to know that they are appreciated and not being used. For the Niger Delta, in terms of governance, it requires pragmatic leaders not the crooks of the past, a leadership with foresight. And thirdly that the federal government would have to bring to bear upon oil companies to fulfill their responsibilities even as the federal government fulfill theirs.

Baba made many mistakes, we all make them don't we, but we hope that these mistakes are not made again.

The larger percentage of the last dispensation were full of liars, cheats led by the guru himself, Obj. I am hoping that it may be possible that by the end of Yar'adua's first term Nigerians would vote him again.

By that time without rigging just because we maybe celebrating three years of uninterrupted power supply.

There is an educational crisis with us, and Nigerians expect that as an academic, and with his VP the old story of strikes would be over, that from the Primary to the tertiary level, it would be a different story.

We hope that Yar'adua or his party will embark on an educational policy thrust that would usher in change.

This is just a scratch, a tip of the iceberg, nobody is asking for a hundred percent turn around, it is a process, although we don't pray for an 'Obasanjolike' process. The one big question I ask the new President, and by extension the new helmsmen across the States...Can you handle all this, may the Almighty help us.