The Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan, is present at the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, which is going on at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The meeting is being presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The minister had, in an interview with the Hausa Service of the BBC last week, said she preferred former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, not Buhari for the 2019 presidential election.
Details later.