The Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey has dismissed contents of a report published by the Ghana News Agency accusing the New Patriotic Party of flagrant abuse of incumbency. The GNA on Sunday published excerpts of a report it attributed to the Institute of Economic Affairs in which the NPP was accused of several abuses of state resources. The IEA has however denied authoring the report and has since issued a disclaimer. A source at the IEA told Myjoyonline.com the report was written in 2008 and only sent to the IEA for review and wondered why it is now being published. However a second person (male) claiming to be the administrator at IEA but who refused to disclose his name, told Myjoyonline on phone that the institution had nothing to do with the said report. The controversy over the authorship of the report notwithstanding, the NPP Chairman told Joy News' Araba Koomson the report is discredited. The report among other things accused the then NPP government under the leadership of President J.A. Kufuor of “using state vehicles, state security apparatuses, state officials, state venues and paraphernalia, and state helicopters to distribute campaign materials of its presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo." “Last-minute flurry of sod-cutting for projects and its commissioning activities by then President John Agyekum Kufuor was seen as inuring to the benefit of the ruling NPP’s candidate.” The document titled: “Report on the 2008 general elections in Ghana,” also said Nana Akufo-Addo “was awash in resources and some estimated him as out-spending his seven other presidential opponents put together by as much as 30:1 ratio”. The report also said the NDC did not have a visibility and depended largely on the house-to-house campaign and did not use billboards. But the NPP Chairman said the report is ‘pregnant’ with an “awful amount of rubbish”, citing the aspect of the report which said the NPP used billboards at a time when the NDC only depended on the house-to-house campaign. Jake Obetsebi Lamptey said he has personally seen so many billboards of the then candidate John Mills and his vice presidential candidate John Mahama splashed across the length and breadth of the country. He also denied the assertion that the NPP used state vehicles to distribute campaign paraphernalia of Nana Akufo-Addo, saying the NPP has enough vehicles to do that. He admitted though that on occasions when then President John Kufuor was embarking on a campaign in his capacity as the president, he used state vehicles. He made reference to an autobiography by for US President George Bush in which he admitted using state vehicles in his campaign. Jake Obetsebi Lamptey called on all political parties to be realistic, objective and to arrive at a consensus on solving the problem of incumbency abuses.