Michael Zuokumor am confident that INEC will do better than it has done in previous elections since it has a track record of improving in every subsequent election. We do know that both FES and INEC have committed human and material resources to this programme. The choice of topics, target audience, resource persons and venue is apt. The topics to be discussed are real, current and relevant. The resource persons are“generals” in their various fields of endeavour. The target audience are people that can make things happen; they can make or mar the elections. Ikogosi Warm Springs Resort is a spa, conducive for spiritual, moral and academic discourse. All of us in this hall are stakeholders in this election. Therefore, we have the responsibility to ensure that it is conducted peacefully and in an orderly manner devoid of rancour. Violence does not help anybody. Rather, it shuts down our businesses, saps our energy, slows down our profits, destroys properties, stigmatises our states, depletes our resources, removes trust, creates enemies, and sometimes causes injuries and deaths. Let us shun it. Let the good people of Ekiti and Osun states say,"NO" to violence. The IGP and the entire Nigeria Police Force will continue to partner with INEC and all stakeholders to provide peaceful and conducive environment for a credible and world standard elections. On behalf of the Inspector General of Police of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I wish all participants a fruitful deliberation. Thank you. xxvi Address by Evans Chidi Ewurum(MNI) in Charge of Operations, Deputy Commandant General(DCG) Representing Drade Abolurin(OFR), the Commandant General (CG) of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC) Protocol I am Evans Chidi Ewurum, Mni, Deputy Commandant-General(DCG) in Charge of Operations representing Dr Ade Abolurin(OFR), the Commandant-General of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). I wish to start this brief remark by thanking the organizers of this workshop on Election Security at this auspicious time. I also want to use the opportunity of this forum to commend and thank INEC Chairman Professor Attahiru Jega and the Commission for an aggressive transformation and positive innovations in our electoral process and system since they came on board and took over the mantle of leadership of our electoral body INEC. The 2011 General Elections adjudged to be comparatively, the freest and most credible by the international observers gives credence to my point. Professor Jega to my mind is the messiah of our time and a 'Daniel that has come for judgment' in our electoral system and process. This workshop could not have come at a better time than now as the country is undergoing political and economic transformation and metamorphosis. xxvii