BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE
BARRING last-minute hitches, the 13-man Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue will submit its report on or before next Monday, December 2.

The panel would have turned in its report detailing modalities for organising the propo-sed national conference on November 19, but was granted two weeks extension by the presidency to wrap up its work.

A member of the panel told Vanguard yesterday that the committee concluded its zonal tour across 13 cities in the six geo-political zones, weekend, with a visit to the FederalCapitalTerritory, Abuja, and is now holed up in the capital city to finish off the job.

The member said: “We finished going round last weekend. We are still in Abuja getting our reports ready. We are trying to keep to limits.

“They gave us extra two weeks and we have loads and loads of me-moranda to work on.”

President Jonathan raised the Senator Femi Okurounmu-led committee on October 1 and inaugurated it on October 7 with a six-week time frame.

The cities visited by the committee are Akure, Jos, Minna, Calabar, Benin, Enugu, Umua-hia, Lagos, Sokoto, Maiduguri, Lagos, Bau-chi, Kaduna and Abuja.

Asked their experience during the zonal visits and the picture emerging from Nigerians on their expectations, Okurounmu, after one of the sittings, said: “The picture that has emerged so far is that of Nigerians exceedin-gly grateful to Mr. President for listening and acceding to their yearnings to convene a national conference.”