(g) being a person whose election to the House of Assembly 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 Speaker of the House of Assembly receives a certificate under the hand of the Chairman of the
Independent National Electoral Commission stating that the provisions of section 110 of this Constitution have
been complied with in respect of the recall of the member.
(2) The Speaker of the House of Assembly shall give effect to subsection (1) of this section, so however that the
Speaker or a member shall first present evidence satisfactory to the House that any of the provisions of that
subsection has become applicable in respect of the member.
(3) A member of a House of Assembly shall be deemed to be absent without just cause from a meeting of the
House of Assembly 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.
110. A member of the House of Assembly 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 registered to vote in that members'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 the receipt of the petition, approved by a simple majority of the votes of the
persons registered to vote in that member's constituency.
111. A member of the House of Assembly shall receive such salary and other allowances as the Revenue
Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission may determine.
D - Elections to a House of Assembly
112. Subject to the provisions of sections 91 and 113 of this Constitution, the Independent National Electoral
Commission shall divide every state in the federation into such number of state constituencies as is equal to three
or four times the number of Federal constituencies within that state.
113. The boundaries of each State constituency shall be such that the number of inhabitants thereof is as nearly
equal to the population quota as is reasonably practicable.
114. (1) The Independent National Electoral Commission shall review the division of every State into
constituencies at intervals of not less than ten years, and may alter such constituencies in accordance with the
provisions of this section to such extent as it may consider desirable in the light of the review.
(2) The Independent National Electoral Commission may at any time carry out such a review and alter the
constituencies in accordance with the provisions of this section to such extent as it considers necessary in
consequence of any alteration of the boundaries of the State or by reason of the holding of a census of the
population of Nigeria in pursuance of an Act of the National Assembly.
115. Where the boundaries of any State constituency established under section 112 of this Constitution are
altered in accordance with the provisions of section 114 of this Constitution, that alteration shall come into effect
after it has been approved by the National Assembly and after the current life of the House of Assembly.
116. (1) Elections to a House of Assembly shall be held on a date to be appointed by the Independent National
Electoral Commission.
(2) The date mentioned in subsection (1) of this section shall not be earlier than sixty days before and not later
than the date on which the House of Assembly stands dissolved, or where the election is to fill a vacancy
occurring more than three months before such date, not later than one month after the vacancy occurred.
117. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, every State constituency established in accordance with
the provisions of this part of this Chapter shall return one member who shall be directly elected to a House of
Assembly in such manner as may be prescribed by an Act of the National Assembly.