'Lai Olurode FES collaboration in this respect continues to prompt a more rational, robust and actionable election security measures. There are three immediate but measurable outcomes of this collaboration. First is the near disappearance of the debilitating phenomenon of inter-agency rivalry whereby security agents, rather than securing election personnel and election infrastructure turned against themselves for reasons of petty rivalry and spurious claims of superiority. What seems to facilitate the end of inter­agency rivalry is the coming into existence of what is now known among election security stakeholders community as the ICCES. This committee itself was an outcome of the first collaboration between INEC and FES at a workshop on security challenges of election management in Nigeria in 2010. The first and the second workshops culminated in the publications of two books 3 on the phenomenon. The second measurable outcome of the INEC and FES collaboration is the curbing of impunity by public office holders who often move around during elections. To some extent, power of incumbency and its open disruption of the electoral process has been curbed. Thirdly, the Commission now rigorously thinks election security and is more responsive to deploying tools tested elsewhere to minimize election security risks. Presently, there now exists a platform for not only sharing ideas among security agencies involved in elections, but also for training them on the electoral process and citizenship generally. 3 See the different chapters in Olurode,'Lai and Jega, Attahiru(eds.)(2011) Security challenges of election management in Nigeria. Abuja: INEC and FES, and Olurode,'Lai(ed.)(2013). Election security in Nigeria: Matters arising. Abuja: INEC and FES. The publication adumbrated the inexorable nature of election insecurity and the diverse strategies being mustered to mitigate their consequences. 46 Understanding a'Power Broker': The Road Transport Workers Unions in the Context of Election Security It must be stated, however, that electoral violence continues to beleaguer Nigeria's electoral process with only dim prospects of abatement of the nuisance that this constitutes. May be, l should quickly recall two incidents that the Commission found frustrating. Sometimes in early February, 2013, the Commission held a bye­election in the Gaya and Garko constituencies of Kano state. Though a return was made in the elections, INEC had to disown the election and in fact, decried in strong terms the violence that greeted the election. In a press release, INEC, in apparent frustration said as follows among others:“Electoral officials were intimidated, harassed and threatened while some INEC supervisory officials were assaulted.” What was more, INEC lamented that,“regrettably, reports also showed that despite the overwhelming show of force by armed youths during the Kano state bye-election, security agents failed to intervene. INEC is concerned that under the circumstance, the elections were conducted in an unwholesome atmosphere that interfered with voters' exercise of their freedom of choice”(see, The Punch, 7th February, 2013). Curiously too, security agents were unable to address the security challenges that arose in the bye-election to the Ese-Odo/Ilaje federal constituency in Ondo state on 5th April, 2014 which was marred by violence to the extent that out of 395 polling units, elections were cancelled in 59 polling units, which amounted to cancellation of almost 15 per cent of the polling units(see report submitted to the Commission by the resident electoral commissioner of Ondo state, dated 17th April, 2014). In the August, 2014 election in Osun state, acts of crass impunity were also exhibited wearing of masks by security agents, abduction of INEC staff on election duties and illegal seizure of election materials by 47