Nigeria’s Medium-Term National Development Plan (MTNDP) 2021–2025 was conceived by the Buhari administration as a bridge between short-term crisis management and the long horizon of Agenda 2050. It promised to deliver faster and more inclusive growth, diversify the economy beyond oil, strengthen infrastructure and human capital, and reduce poverty through employment and social protection. Its ambitions were bold, almost utopian: 21 million full-time jobs created, 35 million people lifted out of poverty, and GDP growth rates consistently above five percent. With the plan now lapsing, two questions are unavoidable: how much of this has been achieved, and how well do its priorities align with President Tinubu’s “Renewed Hope” agenda? In fact, there’s an even more fundamental quagmire as to the usefulness of designing plans that outlast the tenure of the government that births them.