Chapter Seven Conclusions This study was meant to achieve two related purposes: firstly, to obtain information on the perspectives and roles of stakeholders, particularly, the transport workers unions and their members on election security and what they could contribute to mitigate election insecurity; secondly, it sets out to also gauge the views and tolerance of transport workers and their leaderships on the broad notion of democratization as well as assess the unions' internal structure and compatibility with democratic ideals. Honestly, we were not optimistic about the cooperation of transport workers and their leaderships on the project given the general negative perceptions of some of the unions, in particular the NURTW and the Keke NAPEP, and their members by the public. This hard line assumption was not without foundation. Across socio-economic lines in Nigeria, transport workers are among the worst rated by the public and very few would concede anything positive to them. They are believed to be notorious for anti-social behaviours and are believed to be among the most vulnerable groups that can get readily recruited in provoking a breakdown of law and order. These general prejudices of private sector transport workers cut across ethnic boundaries as chapter three has clearly demonstrated. The members are referred to in derogatory terms. However, in the course of our pre-study meetings with some of the members and officials of the unions and during the focus group discussions and interpersonal relationships in the course of the workshop, we quickly realised how patently bias we had been. We 104 105