Section 22: Tenure of seat of members.

(1) A member of a Local Government Council shall vacate his seat in the Council-
(a) if he becomes a member of a legislative house;
(b) on the date when his letter of resignation takes effect;
(c) If 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;
(d) being a person whose election was sponsored by one political party, he resigns from that party or becomes a member of the other political party before the expiration of the period for which the Local Government Council was elected;
(e) if he becomes a member of a secret society; or
(f) the Chairman of the Local Government Council receives a certificate under the hand of the Chairman of the Commission stating that the provisions of section 23 of this Act have been complied with in respect of the recall of that member.
(2) The Chairman of the Local Government Council shall give effect to subsection (1) of this section, so however that the Chairman shall first present evidence satisfactory to the Local Government Council that any of the provisions of that subsection has become applicable in respect of that member.