*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.

“DOKITA Ekwow Spio-Gabrah, Vice-Chairman of the ruling National Democratic
Congress (NDC), has warned the party that it cannot ‘ride on a sick horse to
victory in 2012.’ The former Communication Minister in the Rawlings regime is
least enthused about the current wrangling going on in the party” (Ghanaweb
April 10, 2011).

Ah! Uncle Mills has had it all
Oh! Agya Atta has heard it all
Hm! Papa Mills has seen it all
Invectives curled
Insults honed
Missiles arched
Phlegm sharpened
Name-calling patented

Uncle Agya Atta Mills
Your regime is unprecedented
Like sunflower on the sun
Like water on the Sahara
Shriveling before flowering
NDC campaigning for NPP, CPP
NDC campaigning hard to lose

DOKITA Spew insinuated
Sang before the 2008 elections
Catapulted phlegm
Missiled poison
Targeted Agya Atta’s illness
Yesterday was plain-speaking
Today is a metaphor
Of a SICK HORSE
Of Ponko Abodam

NPP campaign slogans
Ah Uncle Atta
The man of names
Ponko Abodam
Konongo Kaya
Atta Mortuary Man
Team B
Greedy Bastard
Atta Snail Man
Fante Tortoise
Who Born Dog
Spineless Atta
Atta the MESSiah
Atta Blind-Man
Ecomini Ecomini

Eh! Massa we meet again
Son, Ghana is flat
Massa Ghana hard
Ghana be flat that
Eh! We go fall for edge
We fall already
NDC dey burn like JJ FIRE
Eh! Massa dey go arrest you
But fire burn for JJ house
Mills dey built house for JJ
So why JJ dey insult Mills
No be JJ alone oh
No who else Massa
DOKITA Spew too
Ah! Na him say Team B
He say PONKO ABODAM
Oh! DOKITA no say that
Ah! He say am fili fili
Eh! Uncle Atta de suffer oh
Na NDC de campaign for NPP
Na true oh na true that
We all dey hear am

Uncle Atta Mills
Fante Adze bone aba fie
You have become a fodder
Comic reinforcement
Like a sparrow in a rain-dance
Tragic demonizing
Like a rat in JJ’s FIRE-dance
Time to put aside the tea cup
Time to wield Fante Kenkey
Wield Fante kenkey-missiles
Atta Mills stand up now

NDC Ponko Abodam
NDC Ponko Abodam
Ponko goes West
Ponko loses its way
Ponk goes East
Ponkp loses it bearing
Ponko goess Central
Ponko falls down
Ponko goes Asante
Ponko is paralyzed
Ponko goes Upper East
Ponko hits cul de sac
Ponko invades Volta
Ponko suffers blindness

Oh! Kwatta Mills
Stand up and be counted
Mills hit back at your foes
Patented insults
From within
Patented invectives
From within
Patented innuendos
From within
Patented caricaturizing
From within
Patented demonizing
From within
Has clouded Mills

*Akadu N. Mensema, Ph. D., is a nationalist Denkyira beauty. She is a trained
oral historian cum sociologist and Professor in the USA. She lives in
Pennsylvania with her great mentor and teaches Africa-area studies at a college
in Maryland. In her pastime, she writes what critics have called “populist
hyperbolic, satirical” poetry. She can be reached at akadumensema@yahoo.com