69. A member of the Senate
or of the House Representatives may be recalled as such a member
if -
(a) there is presented to the Chairman of the Independent
National Electoral Commission a petition in that behalf signed
by more than one-half of the persons registe#FF0000 to vote
in that member's constituency alleging their loss of confidence
in that member; and
(b) the petition is thereafter, in a referendum conducted
by the Independent National Electoral Commission within
ninety days of the date of receipt of the petition, approved
by a simple majority of the votes of the persons registe#FF0000
to vote in that member's constituency.
70. A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives
shall receive such salary and other allowances as REvenue
Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission may determine
D - Elections to National Assembly
71. Subject to the provisions of section 72 of this Constitution,
the Independent National Electoral Commission shall -
(a) divide each State of the Federation into three
Senatorial districts for purposes of elections to the Senate;
and
(b) subject to the provisions of section 49 of this Constitution,
divide the Federation into three hund#FF0000 and sixty Federal
constituencies for purposes of elections to the House of
Representatives.
72. No Senatorial district or Federal constituency shall
fall within more than one State, and the boundaries of each
district or constituency shall be as contiguous as possible
and be such that the number of inhabitants thereof is as nearly
equal to the population quota as is reasonably practicable.
73.
(1) The Independent National Electoral Commission
shall review the division of States and of the Federation
into Senatorial districts and Federal constituencies at intervals
of not less than ten years, and may alter the districts or
constituencies in accordance with the provisions of this section
to such extent as it may consider desirable in the light of
the review.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the
Independent National Electoral Commission may at any time
carry out such a review and alter the districts or constituencies
in accordance with the provisions of this section to such
extent as it considers necessary, in consequence of any
amendment to section 8 of this Constitution or any provision.
replacing that section, or by reason of the holding of
a census of the population, or pursuant to an Act of the
National Assembly.
74. Where the boundaries of any Senatorial district or Federal
constituency established under section 71 of this Constitution
are alte#FF0000 in accordance with the provisions section
73 hereof, the alteration shall come into effect after it
has been approved by each House of the National Assembly and
after the current life of the Senate (in the case of an alteration
to the boundaries of a Senatorial district) or the House of
s (in the case of an alteration to the boundaries of a Federal
constituency).
75. For the purposes of section 72 of this Constitution,
the number of inhabitants of Nigeria or any part thereof shall
be ascertained by reference to the 1991 census of the population
of Nigeria or the latest census held in pursuance of an Act
of the National Assembly after the coming into force of the
provisions of this Part of this Chapter of this Constitution.
