Managing Election- Relation Violence for Democratic Stability in Ghana elections, public perceptions about the health of Atta Mills and his ability to assert himself against the desires of Rawlings were some of the weak points of the Atta Mills campaign(Ghana News Agency, 2008). Immediately after the elections, comments from the office of former President Rawlings indicated a rocky co­existence between his office and the new administration. First, there was a public announcement from Rawlings' office requesting the dismissal of all DCEs appointed by the previous administration as well as Kufuor's security chiefs within the first three months of the Atta Mills administration(Myjoyonline, 2009). This was followed by calls for the arrest of functionaries of the Kufuor administration. Then came allegations of corruption against the Atta Mills functionaries and a mockery of the quality of the government team put together by the President (ModernGhana.com, 2009). The major evidence of the division appeared in 2011 when a longstanding rumour of interest in the presidential seat became a reality with Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings' announced decision to contest the NDC presidential primary against the sitting President Atta Mills. That contest took place at Sunyani Coronation Park where the former First Lady obtained 3.1 percent of the total votes cast(citifmonline.com, 2011) and Mills won 96.9 percent. The Sunyani Coronation Park verdict further widened the divisions between the two blocs. As one interviewee put it,'Mr. Rawlings wants a total grip of the NDC and wants to call the shots but others think his time is past, giving way to a new era. He wants him[President Mills] to be combative and robust and arrest and prosecute all functionaries of the Kufuor administration who 163