"The recent decision by the ANC to pressurise the NPA (National Prosecuting Authority) into withdrawing charges against Jacob Zuma, is introducing the politics of thuggery, at its best," he said in a speech prepared for delivery at an election rally in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape.

He said the onus was now on the South African people to vote the African National Congress out of power.

"If you do not, you will be endorsing this culture of selective justice, where the poor rot in jail whilst the rich and powerful escape the law.

"It would be a sad day if the people in villages were to give another mandate to a party that has violated the constitutional principles of this country," he said.

Holomisa added that it was unacceptable for Zuma to blame the NPA and the media, when he has failed to explain the money he received from his former financial advisor Schabir Shaik and the Thint arms dealers.

"Can we trust a leader of the ruling party who has successfully dodged his day in court?

"Some ministers, like the former Minister of Intelligence Lindiwe Sisulu, were in an ANC committee tasked with seeing that Zuma does not go to court," he said.

He added that state intelligence was used illegally to ensure the charges against Zuma were dropped.

"Now we know why people like Mbeki, Pikoli and ministers were removed, the aim was to replace them with lackeys like President [Kgalema] Motlanthe," he said referring to former president Thabo Mbeki and former head of the NPA, Vusi Pikoli.

"It is clear that they had an ANC instruction to prevent the NPA from prosecuting Zuma," said Holomisa.

He said that the state needed to explain how these taped conversations of the intelligence service landed in a private citizen's hands to be used for political purposes.

"The only way to fight this is for people to ensure that we reduce the ANC's majority in Parliament so that we can reinstate the charges," he said.

Zuma's fraud and corruption charges was formally dropped in the Durban High Court on Tuesday.