Managing Election- Relation Violence for Democratic Stability in Ghana revolution to solve her problems… Ghana needs a strong man who is a benevolent dictator'(Ghana News Agency, 1979). However, he allowed the scheduled national elections to go ahead by reason of the fact that he wanted the'people to choose freely, honestly and wisely for themselves, the people they want to rule them'. This led to the handing over of power to and the inauguration of the Third Republican government of Dr. Hilla Limann's People's National Party(PNP) on 24 September 1979. On the eve of Dr. Limann's inauguration and in a radio and television broadcast to the nation, Rawlings sounded a cautionary note to Limann that the'June 4 revolution continues', indicating that the seed of the revolution which the AFRC had sown, would grow, take root and bear fruit in a land free of injustice(Ansah, 1979). This implied that he and his AFRC would be closely monitoring the PNP government. Limann's government was confronted with significant socio­economic problems, which it tried to fix. However things did not improve, as'the rate of inflation had risen from 67.5 percent in July 1980 to 122.4 percent-the highest since September 1979. By the end of June 1981, it had abated only slightly to 118.2 percent' (Ninsin, 1983: 96). The PNP government, having earlier rejected the quasi-revolutionary policies of Rawlings' AFRC, and having abandoned Nkrumah's populism for the so-called politics of pragmatism, had denied itself a political solution to the crisis (Ninsin, 1983: 107). The benefits of such populism, according to Ninsin, would have been the remobilization of people to combat the'enemies of society' so as to shift the blame entirely from the government. After barely 27 months in office, the civilian government was toppled in another coup led by Rawlings on 31 December 1981, who cited as reasons the corruption and maladministration of the previous regime that had prevailed in 84