How to pass arguments to an event function created using libevent?

I'm currently trying to use libevent to call a function every n minutes / an event trigger that would call the function and was suggested that libevent can be used. I could use it persistently call the function every n seconds but was unable to figure how to pass arguments to them.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <event.h>

void say_hello(int fd, short event, void *arg)
{
  printf("Hello\n");
  // printf("%d", (int *)arg[0])
}

int main(int argc, const char* argv[])
{
  struct event ev;
  struct timeval tv;

  tv.tv_sec = 3;
  tv.tv_usec = 0;

  event_init();
  // event_set(&my_event, 0, EV_PERSIST, my_function, NULL);
  event_set(&ev, 0, EV_PERSIST, say_hello, NULL);
  // evtimer_set(&ev, say_hello, NULL);
  evtimer_add(&ev, &tv);
  event_dispatch();

  return 0;
}