Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Fourth Alteration) Acts, 2017
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Official source(c) he ceases to be a citizen of Nigeria;
(d) he becomes President, Vice-President, Governor, Deputy
Governor or a Minister of the Government of the Federation
or a Commissioner of the Government of a State or a Special
Adviser.
(e) save as otherwise prescribed by this Constitution, he becomes
a member of a commission or other body established by this
Constitution or by any other law;
(f) without just cause he is absent from meetings of the House of
which he is a member for a period amounting in the aggregate
to more than one-third of the total number of days during which
the House meets in any one year;
(g) being a person whose election to the House was sponsored
by a political party, he becomes a member of another political
party before the expiration of the period for which that House
was elected;
Provided that his membership of the latter political party is not
as a result of a division in the political party of which he was
previously a member or of a merger of two or more political
parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored;
or
(h) the President of the Senate or, as the case may be, the
Speaker of the House of Representatives receives a certificate
under the hand of the Chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission stating that the provisions of section 69
of this Constitution have been complied with in respect of the
recall of that member.
(2) The President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, as the case may be, shall give effect to the provisions
of subsection (1) of this section, so however that the President of
the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives or a
member shall first present evidence satisfactory to the House
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