INTRODUCTION:i. Nigeria and their past electionsIn a bid to have a democratic state where elections are held based on the credibility of electoral candidates, Nigeria is looking forward to gaining stability and regaining its place among African nations. Nigeria has a bicameral legislature consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Presidential and gubernatorial elections are held every four years. A study of past elections conducted in the country had shown that there had never been a free and fair election conducted in Nigeria except the June 12, 1993 elections in which MKO Abiola won. Indeed, the June 12 elections are indeed worth evaluating because, when it was obvious that Abiola would emerge victorious from that election, his opponent, Bashir Tofa, sent him congratulatory messages. This has never happened in today's Nigeria; our political system and our elections are instead characterized by violence, nepotism, delinquency, religious fanaticism and electoral fraud. It is very important to take into consideration the numerous lives of the citizens of this great country that have been lost, the fraud, the kidnappings, the criminals, the underage voting and all sorts of electoral violence that occurred during the last presidential elections in Nigeria. The question is: with all this constructive disenfranchisement, were the elections truly free and fair? Was it credible? Can it be comparable to international standards? Of course, it was clear that the elections did not deserve to become an advertisement for electoral improvement and therefore should not be taken into consideration... middle of paper..., the CENI must be effective during the conduct of the elections, there they should be guaranteed equal support for every candidate in the elections and adequate security should be ensured. However, it is very fair to say that the 2011 elections were better than previous violent elections, but they could not be worthy of serving as the perfect advertisement for other countries to emulate. Therefore, it could never be defined as free and fair.WORK CITED[1] Abati, Reuben. Crossroads: What I Saw on Election Day. The Guardian. 10 April 2011: 66[2] Africa reserved. Reserved Africa. August 6, 2010. http://Web.Ebscohost.Com/Ehost/Pdfviewer/ October 27, 2011.[3] Audu, Saka Raji. Issues in the 2003 general elections. Kano: Spra, 2003.Print.[4] Safra, Jacob E. and Jorge Aguilar Cauz. The new encyclopedia. British. vol. 29. Chicago:Encyclopedia, 2011. Print.