Hurt Trollip lashes out at Juju, Bantu

Citizen reporter

The ousted DA mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay, Athol Trollip, has made no secret of the fact that he’s hurting after losing power this week in a controversial motion of no confidence brought in him by the EFF.

He was replaced by the United Democratic Movement’s (UDM’s) Mongameli Bobani, a man who used to be his deputy but who was himself ousted after being accused of corruption by the DA.

UDM leader Bantu Holomisa demanded evidence of this corruption and claims it was never truly forthcoming.

As a result, the UDM abandoned its support for the DA in the metro, which sounded the death knell for the DA’s governance on Monday when a DA councillor unexpectedly withheld his vote.

Since then, Trollip has been at the forefront of a court challenge against his ousting on the basis that the opposition had not followed the law in removing him in absentia.

Another sore point for the ex-mayor must have been the Iron Man World Championship hosted by the city this weekend, which was something Trollip had pushed hard to bring to Port Elizabeth.

He recently accused EFF leader Julius Malema of being known for making “ridiculous statements”; and called Holomisa someone with the “propensity to insult anyone who differs with him, or exposes him for what he has become”.

He also slammed the new coalition for promoting an ANC councillor found guilty of assault, “Andile Lungisa, to the mayoral committee, by his crooked colleague Bobani, to head up the biggest and most important department with the biggest budget”.

Trollip was, in part, responding to Holomisa being photographed with a smiling Jacob Zuma at the IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s 90th birthday party on Friday night.