In a statement, Mamdani explained that he had traveled back to Uganda to celebrate “his marriage to Rama with their family and close friends.”

The Democratic mayoral nominee said Sunday he’ll travel to celebrate his wedding in the East African nation where he lived the first five years of his life.

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, said that he and his wife were going to the African country where he was born to celebrate their recent marriage.