Nigerians are still expecting the changes promised by the All Progressives Congress, when will it happen?

I would say the promised change has come, but it might be short of a few people's expectations. It would be unfair to begin to make assessment without looking at where we're coming from, where we're and where we want to be. We're coming from a process where democracy has been on the ground in the last 16 years. How have we utilised our resources for development? The president that came last year has come to meet huge problems on the ground. And it's not about the APC but us, as a country, to truly move things forward. Yes, the APC came with the change mantra to let people see that we need to do things differently. And these changes will not come overnight. We've seen changes in the area of corruption eradication because corruption is part of the bane of good governance. We've seen changes coming in the area of infrastructure deployment. But of course, the challenges are enormous and that's why the changes are slow. It's not an APC or PDP thing. It's a collective responsibility. Enough of bickering! If we truly want to have a better Nigeria, let's go ahead together and agree on a set goal of where we want to be at a point in time and pool our resources together to take us to that level.

What is your take on the calls for the restructuring of Nigeria?

Certainly, Nigeria requires to be restructured, but along what lines? When you're using a process that has not translated into the desired result, you change it. But each time we talk about restructuring, people fear that it is a way of balkanising the country. No. It's a way of reviewing how we've been doing things. Our restructuring in the past had largely been political and driven by political exigencies. That's why the economic impact is not felt. We need to restructure on economic lines which might also require geo-political restructuring. We need to identify our economic strengths and put our energies in those strengths, with specific ends in mind, and allow for those economic ends to truly transform into human capital development that'll transform into wealth creation. That's the kind of restructuring Nigeria should do. That's what will give everybody a sense of comfort, without necessarily allowing ourselves to be reliant on a section of the country for support because every section of the country has one resource or the other to contribute. So, the restructuring will require taking potential to the fore and allowing everybody to contribute to human capital development and economic growth. At that level, we'll begin to see that we're not threatened by people from any section of the country who may decide to take laws into their own hands and lead the country into the kind of current situation we're faced with.

Some people argue that to restructure Nigeria, President Buhari should implement the report of the 2014 National Conference.

I'm not aware the president said he would jettison the national conference report. He only said he would put it in the cooler. Jettisoning and putting it in the cooler are not the same. The reason is very simple. You can only fight a battle at a time. There is a high level of insecurity, huge economic downturn, low level of human capital development and infrastructural deficit. You cannot be fighting these battles and still restructure the country at the same time. You need to bring the country to a basic minimum level in order to implement whatever is in the report of the national conference. I think the president is not incorrect by saying that there is a basic minimum level we need to stand on before we begin to talk about implementation.