Election security (i.e security of election officials and materials) remains a formidable challenge in most of Africa. More than ever before in its electoral history, there was an effective coordination of security agents that participated in the Nigeria’s 2011 elections. Incidents of inter agency rivalry was rare. All security agents came under the aegis of what is now referred to as Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES). ICCES itself is an outcome of a workshop “Security Challenges in Election Management: Towards Nigeria’s 2011 Election” under the auspices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES). INEC’s Chair and the National Security Adviser provide effective leadership for ICCES. The outcome of that workshop and the policy intervention that accompanied it spurred the two organisations to partner again ahead of the 2015 general elections. The 2012 workshop focused on matters arising from the planning and execution of security strategies put in place in 2011. It became clear that Nigeria and Kenya among other African countries would have to wait for further consolidation of their fledgling democracy before entertaining the thought of doing away with security agents in election administration. Election security, through the presence of security agents, enhances rather than fetter citizenship and the delivery of electoral services.