By Simon Nare
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has confirmed that some party members were planning to oust President Cyril Ramaphosa at the ANC’s national general council (NGC) scheduled for early next month.
Briefing journalists after the national executive committee (NEC) meeting, Mbalula said Ramaphosa himself raised the matter in his political report over the weekend, revealing that certain individuals were mobilising to remove him.
According to Mbalula, Ramaphosa confronted those calling for his removal and challenged them to specify the date and time he should vacate office.
Mbalula said while the ANC constitution empowers members to remove a sitting president, such a move would require support from two-thirds of party structures, a threshold that has not been met anywhere in the organisation.
Instead, he said, a small group of members was attempting to “digress the party”, and he challenged them to come forward and reveal themselves.
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