Freetown Mayor, Yvonne Aki-Sawyer, has defeated her challenger Mohamed Gento Kamara to retain her position, to the joy of citizens of the municipality who had feared all along that the elections fraud and rigging pandemic in Sierra Leone was going to deprive them of their much-beloved Mayor.
Aki- Sawyerr 288,683 & Gento 268,213
Difference =20,470.
The Freetown mayoral race was one of the bitterest in the just-ended General Elections in Sierra Leone , with SLPP supporters who despiced Yvonne Aki-Sawyer and opposition APC followers and supporters of Mayor Aki -Sawyer engaged in bitter mudslinging whole day on social media.
The Mayor endured a very contentious relationship with the Maada Bio-led SLPP Government throughout the first term and the government brought the heavy-spending Gento ( who made his riches from contracts from the then APC Government led by former President Ernest Koroma) to fight and remove her . The roguish president and his intolerant government placed every conceivable obstacle in front of the Mayor. They defamed her and the SLPP Government even brought a politically-motivated legal case against her to seek her destruction. But one of the boldest women in the history of Sierra Leone stood her ground .
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