Perspectives on Election and the Challenges of Democracy in Nigeria is the proceedings of a conference held on 7h - 10th January 2013 to x-ray the 2011 General Elections in Nigeria, especially the violence that ensued and engulfed the nation in terrible chaos. As scholars, the amount of talk about elections is just not adequate to generate public awareness that can ameliorate the challenges confronting elections in Nigeria. We need to do more than talking and have debates and analyses on Nigeria's electoral situation in order to get the country out of the existing condition. There is the need to hold more conferences which could serve as the basis to generate policy - relevant knowledge that can provide workable solutions to the myriad of challenges associated with elections in Nigeria and also the need for the propagation of the ideas on just, free, fair and credible elections, which are part of the fundamental basis for achieving good governance and democratic society. The character of elections in Nigeria reflects the types of socio- political and economic relations which exist among various classes at the present stage of development in the Nigerian social formation. The fact that Nigeria is operating a capitalist mode of production, which is at a critical stage of primitive accumulation, constitutes an underlying basis of the type of polity that exists and the nature of the behaviour of the governing class when it comes to electoral contests. No matter how credible, free and fair such an election is, it cannot lead to good governance and democracy unless such characters commit class suicide. Unfortunately for the Nigerian people, the electoral system and its institution do not have an in-built mechanism to address such challenge. To make matters worse for the Nigerian people, the electoral institution and its managers have been ineffective in the utilisation of even some of the provisions of the electoral law. This book examines the myriads of problems bedevilling electoral systems and processes in Nigeria and proffers workable solutions to them.