"Many of his ardent supporters and fanatics detest to hear this but, in reality, the politics of insults and lies is what differentiated the Nkrumah-led Convention People�s Party (CPP) from the relatively more urbane and staid United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) and the Busia-led United Party (UP). Such lies, of course, began with an upstart Kwame Nkrumah claiming to have been personally called a �Verandah Boy� by Danquah partisans.