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President John Evans Atta Mills is said to be agonized and saddened by what is becoming a convention of lies, insults and false allegations coming from especially the backyard of his mentor and former boss ex-President Rawlings, according to reports. A source close to the presidency told The Al-Hajj last week Friday that, though the president is confident Ghanaians will renew his mandate in the 2012 general elections judging from the �unprecedented achievements� of his administration, he is nevertheless, upset by what is going on inside his own party. Mills� distress, the source reveals, is as a result of the level of bickering, deliberate propagating of falsehood and in some cases absolute insults by some elements within his own National Democratic Congress (NDC). �I can confirm to you that president Mills is not sleeping over the myriad of false allegations being leveled against his government especially those coming from his own mentor and former president, Jerry Rawlings�s neighborhood,� the source disclosed. According to the source, president Mills is not averse to criticism as he himself has on several occasions stated so, however, what the president strongly object to is the outright peddling of falsehood and insults by party members which he said has the tendency of destroying the party. It may be recalled that, prior to the NDC Sunyani Congress in July, 2011, a close family friend of the Rawlingses, Mr. Herbert Mensah alleged he had security tapes which revealed President Mills� campaign team planned spending about GHS90 million in his campaign for the flag bearer ship race of the NDC.