 Mayor Herbert George-Williams was acquitted of seventeen of the nineteen charges against him.He was convicted of two less serious charges by the Freetown High Court judge Jon Bosco Katutsi and sentenced to pay a fine.Acting Mayor Kanu lost the APC nomination for the mayor of Freetown in the 2012 Mayoral elections by 56 votes; council member Sam Franklyn Bode Gibson won 106 in a landslide victory

In the national presidential and Parliamentary elections, Freetown is similar to swing states in American politics.