Political parties pulled out the big guns on Saturday in a bid to sway Nelson Mandela Bay voters in their favour ahead of the upcoming local government elections on November 1.
UDM leader Bantu Holomisa launched the party's two day campaign trial in the hopes of pulling voters his way while EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu will be out to tug them towards the EFF .
Both parties are in the metro for door to door campaigns in Kariega, with EFF leader Julius Malema expected to arrive in the city on Monday.
This, after ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa also campaigned across the city on Friday.
Holomisa is scheduled to spend the weekend campaigning in various townships across the Metro and close off with a rally in Motherwell on Sunday afternoon.
On Saturday morning, Holomisa gathered with party leaders at the City Hall where a motorcade across the city departed.
The motorcade is expected to head to the northern areas on a door-to-door campaign, with Holomisa set to stop for community engagements in wards 18, 20, 28, Cleary Park, Kariega and Motherwell.
Holomisa said the party's mandate was to show Bay residents the UDM is "the only party that truly cares and puts people first."
"We are intensifying our work in the northern areas as you recall we once had support in that area and we are going back there to have our roots in deep.
"We want to conscientise those who think they will get an outright majority, that there's no law against dreaming. SA is embracing the thought and politics of coalition and we as law makers need to come up with a proper framework to make them successful," Holomisa said.
