The ANC in the Eastern Cape said the party's National Executive Committee will be meeting soon to decide on a candidate to field as a possible mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay.
A special Council meeting has been called for next Thursday morning to decide on opposition party motions that effectively seek to remove the DA-led coalition, particularly executive mayor, Athol Trollip.
The majority of Councillors in Nelson Mandela Bay also called on Council to rescind a decision that dissolved the office of the Deputy Mayor following the ousting of Mongameli Bobani of the UDM.
The notice of motion also called for the removal of all current portfolio heads of council committees and the appointment of new officials.
The wheels were set in motion by EFF commander in chief, Julius Malema, when he recently announced in Parliament that the EFF would bring a motion of no confidence in Trollip to punish the DA for opposing his party's motion on land expropriation without compensation.
He also threw down the gauntlet to the ANC, saying the EFF would back an ANC mayor of the calibre of Mcebisi Jonas, who he said had shown his opposition to corruption by turning down a R600m bribe from the Guptas.
In a statement on Tuesday, refuted weekend reports that a Mayoral Candidate for Nelson Mandela Bay has been decided upon.
"There have been no discussions on the matter, but regretfully some faceless people who purport to be ANC leaders as quoted in Sunday papers peddled these lies and untruths," said ANC provincial secretary, Lulama Ngcukaitobi.
"Over the past weekend, the ANC NEC held consultation meetings with ANC structures (REC / ANC Caucus/ANC Veterans League/ Branches and Alliance structures to solicit their views on the collapse of the DA led Coalition in the Metro," he said.
Ngcukaitobi said that that "the ANC is not a self-seeking organization but founded on the service of the people, henceforth in all the endevours to reconstitute the administration of Nelson Mandela it would be informed by what's the best for the people of the Metro."
"As the consultation was engineered by the NEC, this past weekend discussions will be consolidated through an NEC resolution, when the NEC meets sooner but before the 29th March 2018.," he said.
