ANC furious about Maimane calling Nelson Mandela Bay
Pretoria – African National Congress secretary general Gwede Mantashe reacted furiously to the Democratic Alliance's announcement on Thursday that it would win the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality.
Mantashe said the ANC was in the process of lodging a complaint about the 500 dumped ballot papers found in Nelson Mandela Bay metro with votes in favour of the party and it was too early for DA leader Mmusi Maimane to call a victory.
Maimane said his party projected that it would win 47% of the votes in the metro, with 90% of the votes there counted already.
Immediately after Maimane made the announcement to journalists on the floor of the election results centre - amid applause by DA agents in the vicinity - that the DA was expecting the ANC to get 42% of the vote, Mantashe was seen conferring with IEC chairperson Terry Tselane.
"I was talking to the chairperson of the IEC saying to him why are you leaking the results to the DA before," Mantashe told journalists.