President Muhammadu Buhari is again not presiding over the weely Federal Executive Council meeting for the third time in a row at the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock.
As it has been in the last three weeks, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is in charge and presiding over the meeting.
Upon his arrival around 11am, Osinbajo took charge at the meeting holding in the council chamber of the presidential villa in Abuja.
Mohammed Bello, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), and Udoma Udoma, minister of budget and national planning, offered the Muslim and Christian prayers, respectively and thereafter, journalists were asked to leave the chambers.
There had been reports that Buhari would preside over the weekly meeting where key decisions about the country are made.
Buhari had earlier missed the meeting on two different occasions since he returned from a medical vacation in the UK on March 10.
His absence at key functions has raised concerns and fuelled speculations about his health, but the presidency has dismissed reports about Buhari being critically ill.
The president was at his office on Tuesday, and he received Abubakar Malami, minister of justice, and Maikanti Baru, group managing director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
