Everyone should probe his predecessor
With the general belief among Nigerians that every public officer is a wrong doer, they expect him to be probed by his successor after leaving office. Buhari had promised on several occasions during the campaigns to draw a line and move forward, but maybe the level of ‘rot’ he saw when he took over may have ‘forced’ him to change his mind or maybe the line-drawing theory was just politics in the first place.
Anyway many Nigerians are in support of probes and a handful of them voted Buhari specifically to carry out probes, so he can just carry on. The only problem with the Buhari probes is that they are limited to the Jonathan’s regime; the probes would have been more credible if it included at least the Obasanjo’s regime.
Nevertheless, what we learnt from Buhari is that everyone has a duty to probe his predecessor. In 1984 Buhari probed Shagari, Abdussalami and Obasanjo probed Abacha. Why didn’t Yaradaua and Jonathan probed Obasanjo?
