The government intends to exhume 57 mass graves across the country, saying the recovery of bodies was a step towards achieving justice and reconciliation, she says.
Council leaders said the decision to move the BBC presenter could only be made by Savile's family and said they had no current plans to exhume the body.
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) and the Wiwa family have exchanged a series of angry press releases, in a feud which appears to hinge on an invitation to foreign forensic experts to exhume the bodies.