In the corridors of power and on the streets of Lagos, there is a familiar refrain: "It didn't start with Tinubu." This is undeniably true. Nigeria's economic crisis is not the sudden onset of a new illness but the painful culmination of decades of untreated ailments. The nation, Africa's largest economy by nominal GDP, finds itself in a profound reckoning, grappling with the consequences of successive administrations that, for various reasons, shied away from or botched the necessary, often painful, reforms.