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�J. J. Rawlings has poured indignation at what he says is vote-buying by some leading members of the NDC ahead of the national delegates congress to decide who leads the party to the 2012 general elections. The practice, he said, was not only alien but dangerous to the health of the party, which was founded on the ideals of integrity and transparency� (Ghanaweb, April 5, 2011). �J. J. Rawlings has again repeated his claim that the Presidency is using money and intimidation tactics to threaten and intimidate members of the Nana Konadu camp. The incidents of bribery and intimidation, he says, are alien to the NDC and could lead to the party�s defeat in the 2012 General elections if President Mills is elected on those grounds� (Ghanaweb May 17, 2011) If Mills wins JJ & Konadu will wield flowers If Mills loses JJ & Konadu will wield flowers JJ & Konadu are building a case Crafting a new nest of deceit The case of Mills� vote-buying Their unraveling of illusion Of grandeur of lost power Of sycophantic adulation Of subservient thieves Of raucous chants of JJ JJ JJ is lying to passive Ghanaians NDC under JJ�s rule bought votes They gave all their all to voters DDT to Asante cocoa farmers Easter celebration cards to Kwahus Chamber-pots to Gas to use at the beach Bicycles to impoverished �Northerners� Yesterday�s chop-bar fufu to Krobos Bleaching creams to Kotokoraba women Bleaching creams to Kejetia women Bleaching creams to Makola women Fermented pito to Nima dwellers Cutlasses to warring Konkombas Machetes to warring Nanumbas White singlets to Anlos Palm-wine to Akyems Sugar/milk to Fantes Bibles to Akuapems Ah! JJ and Konadu are at it Crafting their owl narrative Erecting copious caveats Of Mills� vote-buying stance Of Mills� intimidating stance Foraging for a way out of trance Out of an endless tunnel conceit Endless tunnel of self-deceit Building a straw man of conceit In a kiln of a FIREMAN�s deceit Poised for excusable defeat JJ is wielding his amnesia The disease of megalomaniacs Ghanaians now know JJ The sanctimonious JJ Rawlings Rawlings is sadly unraveling Like a dried Keta school boy Like a dried fish in hot water JJ is unscrambling the self The Dzelukope chameleon On a thin slippery precipice The chameleon of many tricks Kutu & co must be laughing Demonized Liman is vindicated �Ata Ayi� Kufour is a saint Afflicted with amnesia In a terrain of selective memory His watershed of megalomania JJ calls non-bastards bastards Forgetting that he is THE bastard JJ imputes murder to others Forgetting that he is THE murderer JJ calls others greedy bastards Forgetting that he is THE greedy one JJ accuses others of vote-buying Forgetting that he bought THE votes JJ claims vote-buying is alien Alien to his who-born-dog NDC But JJ and NDC bought votes In 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008 From chiefs From miners From farmers From masons From the TUC From fishermen From prostitutes From the NUGS From the GNAT From the GPRTU From market women JJ your probity Your accountability Your transparency Have long departed You wear the crown of lies Of walking contradictions JJ is lying again JJ is like the vulture After a bloody carcass meal Cleans its bloody beak Preens its carcass-ed feathers Flutters its wings to the world Flatters the sky with innocence Yet smells of yesterday�s carcass