Former Majority Leader, Felix Owusu-Adjapong dies aged 79

A former NPP majority leader under the government of ex-president Kufuor, Felix Owusu-Adjapong, has passed away at the age of 79.

On Wednesday, October 4, 2023, Majority Chief Whip Frank Annoh-Dompreh posted on his X (formerly Twitter) account that the previous leader of Parliament had passed away.

“Deep condolences to the family… The former majority leader, Hon. Felix Owusu, passed on,” Annoh-Dompreh posted.

Felix Kwasi Owusu-Adjapong, a politician from Ghana, was elected to the Ghanaian Parliament as the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) representative for Akyem Swedru in the country’s eastern region on February 13, 1944. He had also served as energy minister.

He was a member of Ghana’s 4th Republic’s 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Parliaments. In the general elections of 1996, he was first chosen as the representative for Akyem Swedru with a total of 15,824, or 45.30% of all valid votes cast in that year.

With a majority of 14,614, or 56.80% of the total votes cast, he was re-elected in the general elections of 2000. Initially appointed Minister of Transport and Communications in February 2001, he was then named Minister of Parliamentary Affairs in April 2003.

He was re-elected as a Member of Parliament in Ghana’s 2004 general elections with a majority vote of 21,048 votes, or 66.94% of all the ballots cast that year. He left his ministerial position in 2007 to run unsuccessfully for the NPP’s presidential candidacy.

In the 2008 general elections, he did not run for his parliamentary seat. He was appointed energy minister in June 2008 and served in that capacity until the conclusion of the Kufuor administration in January 2009.

Mr. Owusu Adjapong’s death comes after the passing of former first lady Theresa Kufuor and former NDC MP and statesman E. T. Mensah, who both died on Sunday, October 1.