Felix Owusu-Adjapong

Hon.
Felix Owusu-Adjapong
Member of the Ghana Parliament
for Akyem Swedru
In office
7 January 1997 – 7 January 2009
Preceded by Paul Kofi Peprah
Succeeded by Joseph Ampomah Bosompem
Majority 11,381
Minister for Energy
In office
2008–2009
President John Kufuor
Preceded by Joseph Kofi Adda
Succeeded by Joe Oteng-Adjei
Personal details
Born 1944
Nationality Ghanaian
Political party New Patriotic Party

Felix Kwasi Owusu-Adjapong (born 1944) is a Ghanaian politician, formerly a Majority Leader in the Ghanaian parliament and a New Patriotic Party (NPP) member of Parliament for the Akyem Swedru. He also held various ministerial portfolios in the Kufuor government.

Life

Felix Owusu-Adjapong studied Land Economy at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi. He also studied Housing, Planning and Building at the Bouwcentrum Institute in Rotterdam, Urban Land Appraisal at the University of Reading in England, and law at the Ghana Law School.[1]

He was first elected MP for Akyem Swedru in the 1996 parliamentary elections,[2] and re-elected in 2000 with a majority of 5,047.[3] In February 2001 he became Minister for Transport and Communications,[4] and in April 2003 Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.[5] In 2004 he was re-elected as MP with a majority of 11,381.[6] In 2007 he resigned his ministerial position to make an unsuccessful bid for the presidential nomination of the NPP.[7] He did not contest his parliamentary constituency at the 2008 elections, and Joseph Ampomah Bosompem won it for the NPP with a majority of 8,469.[8] In June 2008 he was appointed Minister of Energy,[9] holding the post until the end of Kufuor's government in January 2009.

See also

References

  1. ↑ F.K. Owusu-Adjapong
  2. ↑ Electoral Commission of Ghana
  3. ↑ Adam Carr's Election Archives
  4. ↑ Kufuor swears in four more ministers, ghanaweb.com, 10 February 2001
  5. ↑ Government names new Cabinet, ghanaweb.com, 1 April 2003
  6. ↑ Electoral Commission of Ghana
  7. ↑ Felix Owusu-Adjapong files tomorrow, ghanaweb.com, 31 October 2007
  8. ↑ ghanaweb.com
  9. ↑ Four "New" Ministers sworn into office, ghanaweb.com, 12 June 2008
Parliament of Ghana
Preceded by
Paul Kofi Peprah		 Member of Parliament for Akyem Swedru
1997 – 2009 		Succeeded by
Joseph Ampomah Bosompem
Preceded by
?		 Majority Leader
2005 – 2008 		Succeeded by
Abraham Ossei Aidooh
Political offices
Preceded by
Edward Salia
Minister for Roads and Transport		 Minister for Transport and Communications
2001 – 2003 		Succeeded by
Richard Winfred Anane
Minister for Roads, Highways and Transport
Preceded by
Ekwow Spio-Garbrah
Minister for Communications		 Succeeded by
Albert Kan Dapaah
Minister for Communications and Technology
Preceded by
?		 Minister for Parliamentary Affairs
2003 – 2007 		Succeeded by
Abraham Ossei Aidooh
Preceded by
Joseph Kofi Adda		 Minister for Energy
2008 – 2009 		Succeeded by
Joe Oteng-Adjei
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