The former president who tendered nine certified documents from the presidential library to support his presentation admitted that The Berom Elders Council wrote twice, first to kick against the creation of Jos North Local Government Area and second, calling for a revisit of the creation after it was created.

In an online statement yesterday, Igbini said,“ wheras, I totally condemn as immoral and unconstitutional the decision of the Federal Executive Council to downgrade and ultimately destroy the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun, while upgrading the College of Petroleum Studies in Kaduna, the current proposed Nigerian PIB, if passed into law, will better serve the national interest and more, particularly, the interest and benefits of the exploited and deprived people of the oil producing communities in the South-South.

The convoy of President Umaru Yar’Adua was yesterday involved in an accident on its way from Ilorin, the Kwara State capital to Abuja.

Delta CDHR chairman, Mr. Ikimi asserted “we, members of the CHDR, Delta State, do hereby condemn in very strong terms the Federal Government’s provocative reversal of PTI, Effurun from a University status and the subsequent upgrade of the National College of Petroleum Studies, Kaduna, to the status of a higher institution at a whopping cost of N14.5 billion to train management manpower for the oil industry at the detriment of the ailing PTI in Effurun, Delta state, which under the present dispensation would train junior cadre in the oil industry .

Speaking with State House Correspondents at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport shortly before his departure to Brazil, on a three-day official visit, the President hinted that the bottom line in the whole issue is that the constitution cannot be compromised, but hoped that the issue will be resolved once and for all through constructive dialogue.