🚨🏛🗳 The special council meeting in Nelson Mandela Bay, set to discuss a motion of no confidence against DA Mayor Retief Odendaal, has been cancelled. Read more here 👇
He said the mayor’s legal team submitted their court documents on Sunday, and as a result, they worked late to prepare for the hearing.The high court is expected to hear Odendaal’s urgent court application on Monday. He argues that the process followed to table the no-confidence motion against him, his deputy, and the chief whip was procedurally flawed.
In his court papers, Odendaal wants the court to interdict Van Niekerk from permitting any motions of no confidence against them. He also wants Van Niekerk to pay the costs of the application, including the costs of two counsel. However, Van Niekerk maintains that all the necessary procedures for convening Monday’s council meeting and the petition for the motion of no confidence were adhered to.
“When a motion is brought to council in terms of the rules of order… it states that it should be brought by a councillor, which was done in this case. “It must be dated and signed and it must be signed by the councillors… it is my view that the motion is a legal and a competent motion,” he toldNMB speaker of council Gary Van Niekerk says all processes to convene a council meeting and pass a motion of no confidence have been followed.
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