On April 11, 1979 the anti-Amin forces entered Kampala and Professor Yusuf Kironde Lule was sworn as President. Yusuf ruled for only 69 days only to be deposed by his colleagues commonly referred as the “Gang of Four”. Prof. Lule later died in London where he had exiled himself.

A month before the liberation of Kampala, representatives of twenty-two Ugandan civilian and military groups were hastily called together at Moshi, Tanzania, to try to agree on an interim civilian government once Amin was removed. Called the Unity Conference in the hope that unity might prevail, it managed to establish the Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF) as political representative of the UNLA. Dr. Yusuf Lule, former principal of Makerere University, became head of the UNLF executive committee.

As an academic rather than a politician, Lule was not regarded as a threat to any of the contending factions. Shortly after Amin’s departure, Lule and the UNLF moved to Kampala, where they established an interim government. Lule became president, advised by a temporary parliament, the National Consultative Council (NCC). The NCC, in turn, was composed of representatives from the Unity Conference