Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani claimed he didn’t know that the anti-gay Ugandan politician he posed with in a notorious pic — but records show his dad knew the official for years.

Mamdani had characterized a photo of him and Ugandan Deputy Prime Minister Rebecca Kadaga as an impromptu airport run-in at an airport in the African nation after backlash to him flashing a smile with the official who pushed some of the most oppressive anti-LGBT laws in the world.

But Mamdani’s father, Columbia University professor Mahmood Mamdani, had been named in a 2019 lawsuit that Kadaga oversaw when she was speaker of the Ugandan parliament. 3

Several academics at Makerere University had sued several people including Mahmood Mamdani — who was then also the executive director at the Makerere I

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