President Bola Tinubu has appointed the Deputy Chairman ((South) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Emma Eneukwu, as the new Board Chairman of the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC).

This was disclosed in a statement Friday, signed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President (Information & Strategy).

The statement also disclosed that President Tinubu also approved the appointment of Hon. Donatus Nwankpa, APC National Working Committee Member, from Abia State, Board Chairman, Project Development Institute (PRODA).

According to Chukwudi Enekwechi, Chief Emma Eneukwu started his political journey as the All Peoples Party state chairman in Enugu state and served for eight years. Prior to that he was the state chairman of Congress for National Consensus (CNC) between 1994 and 1997, and from 1999 to 2007 he became the state chairman of ANPP. From 2007 to 2013 he served as the national publicity secretary of ANPP.

He was also the secretary of the APC merger planning committee, and with the subsequent merger of All Nigeria Peoples Party, Congress for Progressive Change, Action Congress of Nigeria and a faction of All Progressives Grand Alliance the All Progressives Congress was   birthed.  Under the Chief John Oyegun leadership of APC, Chief Emmanuel Eneukwu was the South East Vice Chairman of the ruling party, and with the recent election of the party’s leadership under Senator Abdullahi Adamu, Eneukwu has in the fashion of the proverbial cat with nine lives once again emerged as the APC Deputy National Chairman (South) with his constituency covering the entire Southern Nigeria.