The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says latest comments by the New Patriotic Party (NPP), in an attempt to clarify the controversial ‘all-die-be-die’ statements by the party’s flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo is just a face-saving measure. The NPP has been accusing the ruling NDC of planning to use violence and intimidation to win the 2012 elections. NPP Chairman, Jake Obestebi Lamptey has been explaining that this is what informed Nana Addo’s ‘All-die-be-die’ comments. But the Propaganda Secretary of the NDC, Richard Quashigah has said the clarification by the NPP party chairman is just a face-saving tactic because Nana Addo’s comments seem to have caused a big upset for the party. “He said ‘all-die-be-die’, he said people should go and die and if you die for political reasons, ‘all-die-be-die’. He obviously sounded very ethnocentric by making references to “they Akans” and we think that these kinds of statement are unwarranted and that is not what we need in this country,” he admonished, adding “I think that Jake is only being hypocritical and it is an effort to distort the history that justifies the blood thirsty rhetoric of their flagbearer, Akufo-Addo.” On their part, Mr. Quashigah says the NDC is going to put the right mechanism in place to safeguard the democracy of the nation. “We (the NDC) are committed to ensuring that the peace and the development of this nation is not truncated by any act of violence by any group of people and that we will do what we can to ensure that lawlessness does not become the order of the day,” he stressed. Story by Derick Romeo Adogla/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana