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Ex-President Rawlings was at his usual charismatic best in the Ashanti Regional capital of Kumasi when he delighted the audience who graced the commemoration of the 32nd Anniversary of the June 4 Uprising with anecdotes, shouts of Hallelujah and occasionally interspersed his delivery with somewhat impeccable twi. Obviously impressed at the attendance, Mr Rawlings said he had come to deliver a lecture not knowing he was coming to meet a rally as the visibly charged crowd went haywire screaming intermittently; �JJ Do Something Before You Die�. Quite characteristically, the former President tongue-lashed the Mills administration and expressed sadness that despite having �fought� hard to oust the New Patriotic Party (NPP) from office, �the wrong people are back in power� in apparent reference to the Mills-Mahama NDC government. In condemning President Mills� governance style, the Mr. Rawlings admitted that the PNDC and NDC 1 which he was the leader made a mistake by not identifying intelligent, brilliant and smart people to take over the reins of power from his administration. He rambled off a litany of the �failures� of the Mills-Mahama administration including the lethargy in prosecuting and jailing former NPP ministers and attacked the �slow� pace of the administration�s Better Ghana Agenda. �There is a growing perception that a good number of people within the NDC would rather lose the 2012 elections to the opposition NPP rather than allow the NDC to retain power through a new leadership that would seek for justice�.