Section 12: Permanent incapacity of Chairman and Vice-Chairman.

(1) The Chairman or Vice-Chairman shall cease to hold office if-
(a) by a resolution passed by two-thirds majority of all the members of the Local Government Council it is declared that the Chairman or the Vice-Chairman is incapable of discharging the functions of his office; and
(b) the declaration is verified after such medical examination as may be necessary by a medical panel established under subsection (4) of this section in its report to the Secretary of the Local Government.
(2) Where the medical panel certifies in such report that in its opinion, the Chairman or Vice-Chairman is suffering from such infirmity of body or mind as to render him permanently incapable of discharging the functions of his office, a notice thereof signed by the Secretary of the Local Government shall be published in the Gazette of the Government of the State.
(3) The Chairman or Vice-Chairman shall cease to hold office from the date of publication of the notice of the medical report pursuant to subsection (2) of this section.
(4) The medical panel to which this section shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Local Government and shall comprise three medical practitioners in Nigeria-
(a) one of whom shall be a medical practitioner of the choice of the officer concerned; and
(b) two other medical practitioners.