President Muhammadu Buhari is currently in a closed-door meeting with Aminu Tambuwal, governor of Sokoto state.
The meeting is being held at the presidential villa in Abuja.
The reason for the meeting is unclear but it is coming after Tambuwal lost out of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) consensus candidate arrangement.
Over the past months, Bukola Saraki, former senate president; Bala Mohammed, Bauchi governor; Tambuwal and Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, former managing director of the now-defunct FSB International Bank, held consultations across the country on consensus candidature.
Saraki and Mohammed were announced as “northern consensus candidates” following a report released by Ango Abdullahi, elder statesman, last week.
But Tambuwal rejected the outcome of the exercise.
Raymond Dokpesi, PDP chieftain, distanced Atiku Abubakar, another presidential hopeful, from the arrangement.
