Your soar away Vanguard got a copy of the Senator Okurounmu 13-man Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue yesterday. The highlights of the committee’s 38-item agenda include:

* Conference to have no no-go area

* Conference to be managed by 13-member secretariat under Executive secretary with two members from each geo-political zone

* Majority of delegates to be elected directly on the principles of universal adult suffrage

* Each Senatorial zone to send four elected delegates

* Each state government to nominate one delegate

* FCT to nominate one delegate

* President to nominate delegates for key interest groups

*Nominated delegates not to exceed one-third of total number of delegates

* Conference to hold for at least three months and not more than six months

* Conference should hold between February and July 2014

* President should send a bill to the National Assembly for an enabling law

*Alternatively, President can convene conference via provisions of section 5 of 1999 Constitution

* Emergence of delegates to be based on any of four options —

* Option A (Representation on the basis of equality of geo-political zones. This will give conference size of 349 delegates with each zone having 45 delegates)

* Option B (Representation on the basis of senatorial districts, with each district producing three delegates. Total delegates will be 502 with 364 elected through Electoral College made of five electors from each local government area)

Option C (Representation on the basis of equality of constituencies of House of Representatives with total delegates being 536)

Option D (Equality of senatorial districts with four delegates per senatorial district and total delegates size of 500 with 436 elected).