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 who served as Majority Leader in the Parliament of Ghana and as a New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Akyem Swedru. He also held various ministerial portfolios in the Kufuor government.

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.

He was first elected MP for Akyem Swedru in the 1996 parliamentary elections, and re-elected in 2000 with a majority of 5,047. In February 2001 he became Minister for Transport and Communications, and in April 2003 Minister of Parliamentary Affairs. In 2004 he was re-elected as MP with a majority of 11,381. In 2007 he resigned his ministerial position to make an unsuccessful bid for the presidential nomination of the NPP. 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. In June 2008 he was appointed Minister of Energy, holding the post until the end of Kufuor's government in January 2009.

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