The ANC in the Eastern Cape says the party's newly elected regional executive committee in Buffalo City must move swiftly to improve the organisation in that region.
ANC provincial spokesperson, Mlibo Qoboshiyane, says the new REC must work closely with the Buffalo City Metro Municipality to enhance the reputation of the ruling party in the region while also striving for unity.
He says the fact that more than 190 delegates elected their new leadership, under former Buffalo City mayor, is a signal that the ANC must be serious about the status of the province's second metropolitan municipality.
"While we applaud the seamless transfer of leadership from the former IRC leadership to the newly elected leaders, we call on the BCM Regional Executive to work with the speed of lightning to improve the condition of the organization in the region," he said.
"Part of the areas that require their urgency is to develop programmes to increase the numbers of minority communities in the ANC, work shoulder to shoulder with the Municipality to build better communities, improve the reputation of the ANC in the region, work towards ensuring unity in the region while working to increase the presence of the ANC in all community structures," Qoboshiyane added.
"The new leadership carries the hopes of all our people in this community; they have no option but to roll up their sleeves and work harder in implementing the ANC policies, especially the Freedom Charter and election manifestos. Chief amongst these things is to ensure that any developmental programme is protected from fraud and corruption so that services are speedily delivered to the people in the metro."
"Our newly elected leadership should ignore narrow media speculations aimed at sauntering their focus from the work at hand into ANC leadership succession ahead of our elective conference in Mangaung because our communities require solid and united leadership from the ANC and nothing less but everything more," he said.
"As the PEC, we will work with them and all other structures of the ANC, especially the ones established after the realignment process to ensure unity of the organization so that we are able to respond to the challenges facing our people," he said,
