(a) he becomes a member of another legislative house.
(b) any other circumstances arise that, if he were not
a member of the Senate or the House of Representatives,
would cause him to be disqualified for election as a member;
(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 sponso#FF0000
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 sponso#FF0000; 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 concerned that any of the provisions
of that subsection has become applicable in respect of that
member.
(3) A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives
shall be deemed to be absent without just cause from a meeting
of the House of which he is a member, unless the person presiding
certifies in writing that he is satisfied that the absence
of the member from the meeting was for a just cause.
