Victor Owusu is Dead

The death has been announced in Kumasi of Mr Victor Owusu, an eminnent politician and lawyer, after a protracted illness.

Mr Owusu, a stalwart of the Danquah-Busia, tradition was the presidential candidate of the Popular Front Party (PFP), the predecessor of the New Patriotic Party in the 1989 elections.

He lost in the first ever presidential ballot run-off in Ghana to the late Dr Hilla Limann of the Peoples National Party which went on to form the government of the Third Republic.

Victor, as he was affectionately called, has had a long and distinguished career as a politician and a lawyer.

He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Second Republic under Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia from 1969 to 1972.

Victor was a fierce advocate for free enterprise and political pluralism but has been plagued with ill health lately.

Many Ghanaians remember with pity during the aftermath of the 1979 revolution when Victor and other leading politicans were forced on national television to accuse each other of wrong-doing.

Many believe he was never himself after that show.