Managing Election- Relation Violence for Democratic Stability in Ghana party comes to power. According to Yankah(June 2011), its acceptability and …popularity was driven by its simplicity, poetic appeal and the informal vehicle of Broken English in which it[was] conveyed. Summarily, it contains all the necessary ingredients required for mass mobilization and political action; for it comes handy to the pedestrian looking for ready-made rhetoric in which to wrap his sense of desperation. Indeed, the sense of helplessness felt by the poor man wallowing in penury and self-deprivation could signal a condition of virtual death depicted in the slogan. The expression then would be appropriate since dying in self-defense could be death all the same, a zero-sum game. In his defense, the flagbearer and some members of the party have argued it was a harmless phrase that did not by any means call for violence. In point of fact, in delivering the 2012 Oppenheimer Lecture in London, Akufo-Addo gave the indication that inciting people to violence with the aim of assuming power would contravene his deep-seated principles of upholding democratic values as evinced in his actions during the 2008 presidential election: I … accepted defeat … without demanding a recount and without spilling a single drop of blood, without seeking power­sharing or forcing a constitutional crisis, in an election which I lost by the narrowest of margins in the history of elections in Africa 3 . 0 …[Simply because] I was not prepared to put my personal ambition before the principles that made me a 31 politician in the first place. 30 The final figures were 4, 521,032 votes for Atta Mills to 4,480,446 votes for Akufo-Addo, translating into a 0.46% margin 31 Nana Akufo-Addo(February 2012) Oppenheimer Lecture 2012 112