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Andile Lungisa to hold press conference after request for him to resign from ANC

A file photograph of Andile Lungisa from his official Twitter account

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ANC's Andile Lungisa is expected to hold a media briefing on Tuesday in response to the regional task team's (RTT) call for him to resign.

On Sunday, the RTT asked Lungisa to resign from the council within 72-hours citing the 2018 assault conviction against him as the driving force.

In 2016 Lungisa intentionally smashed a glass jug over the head of former mayoral committee member for transport Rano Kayser during a chaotic Nelson Mandela Bay council meeting.

He was sentenced to two years in prison but is currently waiting for the outcome of his appeal in the Supreme Court.

This comes as another political blow to him in a short space of time after the ANC's provincial executive committee asked him to step down as the city's infrastructure head three weeks ago.

Lungisa says he will also talk about people who have stolen Covid-19 resources in the Metro.

Meanwhile, political Analyst, Ongama Mtimka says Lungisa will not go down without a fight.

But, he says what is disappointing about ANC leaders and people in other parties, is the tendency to sit on information about their opponents until such time when it's politically advantageous.

Mtimka says there is what he said an instrumental attitude or approach to justice, one which says explosive information will be used not in the interest of justice but to counter unfavourable political developments.