A member of the communication team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Felix Kwakye Ofosu has branded the Institute of Economic Affairs and other policy think tanks in the country as allies of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). The Institute of Economic Affairs on Monday August 15, 2011 denied a publication by the Ghana New Agency (GNA) that the NPP then ruling party abused incumbency in the 2008 general elections. The report GNA sourced the from the website of IEA headlined “IEA slams NPP for abuse of incumbency in Election 2008” indicated that the NPP used state resources for their campaign to the disadvantage of the opposition parties especially the then opposition NDC. According to IEA they never authored or released such a report on their website as it is being alleged by the GNA. But the Ghana News Agency which expressed shock and dismay at IEA for removing the report it had posted on its official website since March 21, 2009. The GNA maintains that the report was sourced from the official website of the Institute of Economic Affairs. However on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Wednesday, Felix Kwakye Ofosu noted that the position by the policy think about the suppose report on abuse of incumbency by the erstwhile Kufour administration in 2008 is just to please the NPP. He said the CDD, IEA and IMANI all hide under the guise of civil society organizations when in fact they are working for the NPP hence lack credibility to be the abita Ghanaian politics. Felix Kwakye Ofosu stated that he was amazed at the denial by IEA when it is a fact that “the NPP’s campaign in 2008 was the most lavish, the most ostentatious and the most expensive campaign in our history”. The NDC Youth activist questioned the competence of the officials manning the organization allowing their website to be hacked into if indeed their claims are true. He observed that the NDC believes in the objective judgment of Ghanaians and does not need the Centre for Democratic Governance, IEA or IMANI as allies since they don’t contribute in anyway the national developmental these organization.