Felix Kwasi Owusu-Adjapong (13 February 1944 – 4 October 2023) was a Ghanaian politician who was a member of the Parliament of Ghana as a New Patriotic Party (NPP) representative for Akyem Swedru of the eastern region of Ghana.[1] He also served as Minister for Energy.[2][3]
Owusu-Adjapong was a member of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Parliaments of the 4th republic of Ghana.[5] He was first elected Member of Parliament for Akyem Swedru in the 1996 Ghanaian general elections with a total of 15,824 making 45.30% of the total valid votes cast that year.[6][7] He was re-elected in the 2000 Ghanaian general elections with a majority of 14,614 making 56.80% of the votes cast.[8][9] In February 2001 he was appointed Minister for Transport and Communications,[10] and in April 2003 Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.[11]
In the 2004 Ghanaian general elections, he was elected again as Member of Parliament with a majority vote of 21,048 making 66.94% of the total votes polled that year.[12][13][14] In 2007 he resigned his ministerial position to make an unsuccessful bid for the presidential nomination of the NPP.[15] He did not contest his parliamentary constituency at the 2008 Ghanaian General Elections, and Joseph Ampomah Bosompem won it for the NPP with a majority of 8,469.[16] In June 2008 he was appointed Minister of Energy,[17] holding the post until the end of Kufuor's government in January 2009.[citation needed]
Death
Felix Owusu-Adjapong died on 4 October 2023, at the age of 79.[18]