'Lai Olurode Professor Attahiru Jega bared his mind and gave some background on election security and election management, thus: Electoral security has been a recurrent challenge to election management bodies in Nigeria over the years. This has spanned several issues including the physical security of election officials, protection of election materials, including result documents containing election results, ensuring order at polling and collation centres, as well as controlling violence among contending political interests. 3 The new Commission, even in the short period of its existence, has experienced the stark reality of election insecurity. In recent bye elections in some parts of the country, INEC officials were threatened with physical violence in an attempt to dissuade them from carrying out their lawful responsibilities. ICCES meets close to any major election to review security issues as they pertain to elections and map out strategies to conduct election. 3 See Inaugural address by INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega dated 20th December, 2010. Professor Jega said inter alia“Electoral insecurity has been a recurrent challenge to election management bodies in Nigeria over the years. This has spanned several issues including physical security of election officials, protection of election materials, including result documents containing results, ensuring order at polling and collection centres, as well as controlling violence among contending political interest.” The Commission at its meeting of 7th December, 2010 had approved the establishment of Inter-agency Consultative Committee on Election Security at the national, state and local government levels See decision extract of the Commission dated 8th December, 2010. 18 Introduction: Electoral Reforms and Election Security This Commission has enjoyed an unalloyed support and commitment from the collaborating agencies and thus the history of the success so far that the Commission has earned since 2010 cannot be correctly narrated without conceding a conspicuous space to the role of ICCES. It is perhaps in the nature of security issues that as current security challenges are mitigated, new ones evolve. They are rarely permanently kept at bay. In 2012, INEC and FES again had another collaborative outing during which election security matters arising from 2010 workshop were distilled as they related to the 2011 general elections. A publication which came out of this was titled Election Security in Nigeria: Matters Arising. This, then necessitated the workshop of May, 2014 in Ikogosi Ekiti which targeted stakeholders that had not been involved in previous workshops particularly road transport workers and their unions as well as related organizations. This last workshop was appropriately titled Election Security: Stakeholders' Perspectives. An array of stakeholders were invited which included all sections of transport workers including okada riders, youth wings of political parties, security agencies and INEC staff among others. Academics also made presentations. The aims being to discuss how to alter the negative mindset of stakeholders which, regards election as a do-or-die affair, and to understand the perception of non-state actors on the core values embedded in democratization and the electoral process. The workshop was also designed to seek an input on how to collectively mitigate the degeneration of the electoral process to persistent violence. Participants who rarely had an opportunity to make input into policy issues of INEC and security agencies aired their views and were heard. A memorandum of understanding emerged at the end of the workshop. 19