WHO IS NOBERT MAO?

BIOGRAPHY AND LIFESTORY OF NOBERT MAO

Nobert Mao is the current President of the Democratic Party, former chairman of Gulu municipality and former Member of Parliament for Gulu Municipality. 

Nobert Mao is a strong member of the opposition party called Democratic Party (DP)who was once the Guild president of Makerere University between the year 1991- 1994. Nobert Mao was born on 12^th march in the year 1967. 

His mother is a Munyankole from western part of Uganda and the father is an Acholi from the Northern Part of Uganda. 

He had his primary education and proceeded to Nyakasura School for his secondary education. 

From there he joined Makerere University where he pursued a Bachelors degree in law. While at Makerere University he was the head of the student’s guild council. 

After completing his law degree, he joined the Law Development Centre for a Diploma in Legal practice for the bar course.

 After completing his bar course he joined some law firms where he worked for some good years before finally joining elective politics to date. 

He contested for the Member of Parliament seat in the Gulu municipality which he won consecutively and has been representing the people of Gulu Municipality for over 7 years when he decided to contest for the Gulu municipality chairman which he won.

 Nobert Mao recently contested for the presidential seat in Uganda in the 2016 elections where he became third in the elections after President Yoweri Museveni won the elections giving National Resistance Movement another term in Office.

 He recently launched a campaign called Togikwatako alongside his Democratic Party members like Mukasa Mbidde, Betty Nambooze which is a campaign to sensitise Ugandans against the changing of article 102b of the constitution that says that a person above the age of 75 shall not contest for the presidential seat. 

The campaign has become popular and his party has now joined hands with other opposition parties to help defend the constitution of the Republic of Uganda. 

He married to a woman called Naomi and they have children.