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Recent Nigerian experience illustrates the importance ofensuring that the institutional, financial, and operational powers of election management bodies are safeguarded

How should countries organise their systems of electoral administration? Recent election cycles in Nigeria illustrate the importance of ensuring that electoral management bodies are not just institutionally independent, but that steps are also taken to ensure that sufficient emphasis is placed on the institutional, financial, and operational powers and functions of these organisations, argues Ibrahim Sani.