At the time the Electoral Commission was resisting desperate calls from opposition parties to call for IPAC meetings between the EC and political parties on the urgent matter of compiling a new biometric voter register for 2012, intelligence work undertaken by the New Statesman has revealed that a very senior official at the EC was the special guest of a five-day top secret strategic retreat of the ruling party, where the party came out with the Election 2012 slogan: �Victory By All Means - Do or Die!�