Chapter 7 utterance and publication illustrate the role of the media in giving motive power to statements that might otherwise be frozen in space. 90 Addressing party executives in Koforidua, Nana Akufo-Addo encouraged supporters to demonstrate pluck in any future occurrence of intimidation or attempt to subvert the 2012 elections by members of the ruling NDC. He then added(in the Akan language) that'2012 is going to be a do-and-die affair, after all, all die be 91 die.' The NDC took umbrage for propaganda capital. It accused Akufo­Addo of making bellicose and belligerent 92 statements, and organised a news conference, addressed by party General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia, at which it alleged that: 'Nana Akufo-Addo has reconfirmed his credentials as a war monger who will stop at nothing in his bid to pursue his selfish political ambition of becoming President at all costs even if it means plunging this nation into civil and tribal war. These pronouncements are typical of Nana Akufo-Addo whose political life has been characterized by violence all along'. 93 The statement accused the NPP of an orchestration'to disintegrate this nation along ethnic, political or religious lines'; adding(with a whiff of xenophobic stereotype) that: 'If Nana thinks suicide bombing is the best way to achieve his political ambition then we suggest he considers relocating to countries like 90 The words were apparently uttered'off the record' and would probably not have been the subject of heated public discourse if they had not been'covertly' taped by a journalist and played back in a radio news voiceover. 91 It is important to indicate that many of these media reports, particularly those that are English translations of statements originally uttered in Akan, have tended, often wittingly, to be misrepresentations or embellishments of the intent, inflection, or context in which they were originally used. 92 Press conference by NDC, 10 February 2011 93 Ibid. 226