If it is ascertained and further verified by a medical panel that in its opinion the Governor or his Deputy is suffering from such infirmity of body or mind as renders him permanently incapable of his discharging the functions of his office, a notice thereof signed by the Speaker of the House of Assembly shall be published in the official gazette of the Government of the state.
And thus the Governor or his Deputy shall cease to hold office as from the date of publication of the notice.
Note that the panel required under this regulation shall consist of 5 medical practitioners in Nigeria, one of whom shall be the personal physician of either the Governor or the Deputy Governor as the case may be; while the remaining 4 should be those (in the opinion of the Speaker of the House of Assembly) who have attained a high degree of
eminence in the field of medicine relative to the nature of the examination to be conducted.
Establishment of Certain State Executive Bodies
The Constitution, 1999 made it imperative for each state of the Federation to establish the following bodies, namely:- The State Civil Service Commission;
- The State Independent National Electoral Commission; and (3) The State Judicial Service Commission
- The composition and powers of each body can be found in the third Schedule Part II of the Constitution, 1999.
- The composition and the functions of each of these bodies are as follows:
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