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The Mayor of Freetown has in a meeting bade farewell to staff and partners at the Freetown City Council Headquarters on Wallace Johnson Street.
Aki-Sawyerr has served her first-term as mayor of the Sierra Leonean capital. She ran under the ticket of the All People’s Congress (APC) in 2018 and successfully defeated Raymond De Souza George. The mayor has made her intention to run for second term but recent speculations have mounted up ticking her as a suitable candidate for the vice presidency of the APC party in this year’s election.
Her last official duty was yesterday when she received Assistant Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Prof Luis G. Franceschi and his colleagues Dr Michelle Scobie and Mr Abubakar Abdullahi of the Commonwealth Governance and Peace Directorate.
The Commonwealth expatriate are in Sierra Leone to engage political stakeholders to embrace peace as the West African nation edge towards elections in June.
Her supporters have expressed their continued support for her and some said that the woman achieved great things for the city.
Some her critics, however, said that the mayor failed in her first citing the Transform Freetown Project as a sham.
Aki-Sawyerr’s decision to leave office is in tandem with a directive issued by the Ministry of Local Government late last month. The said asked mayors, district chairpersons and councillors to leave office at the end of February since the country prepares for elections.
