Lancelot Anyanya election personnel brought another dimension to the narrative of electoral violence with very deep and far reaching implications for future elections. For one, future elections, at least in certain areas, may not attract the enthusiastic participation of Youth Corps members whose national spread has proven to be an invaluable asset in the conduct of nationwide elections. It is however vital to point out quickly that the unfortunate incident of the post-election violence is not objectively reflective of the performance of INEC and the security agencies. If for nothing else, the fact that the situation was so well managed to allow for the conduct of subsequent elections is an undeniable testimonial to the depth and resilience of the security strategies put in place for the polls. Within the context of the recommendations from the 2010 workshop, it is clear that responsibility for implementation lay with both INEC and several agencies in the national security and law enforcement community, with the bias in terms of percentage share, tilted heavily in the direction of security agencies. Without going into much detail, it would be useful to undertake a quick appraisal of the performance of INEC and the security agencies in the run up to, during and after the elections. 2.6 Performance of INEC INEC's responsibility for security could be captured in three broad areas; Agenda setting, Planning, and Strategic Coordination(non-operational). To a fair extent, INEC acted proactively to set the agenda for election security management. The ICCES was a novel initiative that provided a 26 ELECTION SECURITY IN NIGERIA: MATTERS ARISING Assessment of 2011 Elections in view of Recommendations from the 2010 Workshop platform for more integrated and efficient security management before, during and after the elections. However it may be argued that the process could have benefitted from more empirical planning resulting in a template developed by INEC which would reflect its unique perspective as the election management body and primary owner of the mission. Without the benefit of inside knowledge of INEC's election security plans either for its own organic institutional purpose or in conjunction with the ICCES, one is left to look to manifest events and their management to adjudge the effectiveness of such plans. The seeming absence of an evacuation plan for pulling staff and ad-hoc personnel from crisis areas when the violence broke out for instance is a major planning flaw for an election in which the most pedestrian assessment anticipated violence even if not on the scale witnessed. With respect to strategic coordination of the non-operational aspects of security arrangements, even without any inside knowledge, it is plausible to assume that this may have been an area of challenge owing largely to the novelty of the idea and possible resistant mindset of other stakeholders. 2.7 Performance of Security Agencies In the wake of the post-election violence, the performance of security agencies had been as widely criticized as it has been commended. Some observers rated their response as inadequate and perhaps reflective of insufficient reading and anticipation of the coming crisis, some kind of“intelligence failure”. However, in view of the several monumental systemic challenges ranging from deficiencies in logistics, numerical ELECTION SECURITY IN NIGERIA: MATTERS ARISING 27