Managing Election- Relation Violence for Democratic Stability in Ghana militant. Some of these statements are'all die be die','I declare jihad','I declare war','Gas in NPP are fools','Fantes are concert people and foolish for not voting for their own', and'Atta mortuary man.' When elections are deemed to be a survival of the fittest contest, and not based on the actual policies of the parties or their candidates, it results in violent contestation such as has been witnessed in the run-up to the 2012 elections. The majority of these acts have been fueled by language and threatening behaviour and psychological threat of the intended use of violence(Aning and Lartey, 2011). Such manipulative campaigning amounts to cheap politics, which attacks personalities who are viewed as political enemies and must be coerced into political oblivion(ibid). While all parties play the blame game, the use of such language serves a number of purposes:(1) intimidation of opponents to prevent them from participating in the electoral process;(2) garnering support and sympathy from the masses by blaming opponents;(3) mobilizing support from the foot-soldiers to prepare for battle. Thus, much like the post-independence populists that have previously been discussed in this paper, political rhetoric is employed to perpetrate the incumbent's continued stay in power, while the opposition employs it to accede to power. Conclusion The political sphere of Ghana has undergone significant upheavals since independence, from military rule, to revolutionary politics, to democracy. These have been engineered by leaders who have employed various leadership styles to attain and maintain power. 92