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I just became a landlord in Seattle and went to landlord class. The first thing I learned was that the laws vary drastically by state, county, and city. Second thing I learned is that the laws are out to protect everyone and in doing so make it fairly hard to evict someone who has a tenant.
That said, you are not a tenant. Unless you've made a specific agreement to allow you to live (even for one night) in your GF's landlord's building, you really don't have any rights beyond what is in her agreement. Because of that, I'd recommend that she talk to him and not you, or that you go together.
The lease I've got with my tenants has a similar clause about letting guests move in. The reason? First, I'm paying garbage, water, and sewage. More people = more money out of my pocket, and believe it or not this gets expensive. Second, I don't want the person I rented the place to be fronting for some convicted criminal and have my "tenant" go on vacation forever and have their criminal friend move in in their place.
I bet if your GF talks to the landlord and tells him the situation, he'll probably relax once he realizes he's not at risk of the two issues I just mentioned. Unless, of course, your GF is bad at paying rent or taking care of the place. In that case, he's going to use every tool he has to get her out of there.
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