For its failures every step of the way in eight years, the immediate past administration of President Muhammadu Buhari found convenient whipping boys in his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan and his party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who ‘destroyed the country and its economy for 16 years.’ But by the time he was done, every developmental and economic index had gotten much worse than under the PDP, and Buhari has found himself in the same boat he had put Jonathan, with his successor, Bola Tinubu and his foot soldiers already pointing to the level of economic destruction that occurred under his watch, as the sole reason for the current heightened suffering in the land, a development that has set both camps up for collision.
But amid the blame games, many have continued to point out that it’s disingenuous for the new government to turn around and blame the previous one after supporting its policies for eight years.
