ref="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovamboland_People%27s_Congress" title="Ovamboland People's Congress" class="mw-redirect">Ovamboland People's Congress</a>. On April 19, 1959 Nujoma co-founded the <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovamboland_People%27s_Organization" title="Ovamboland People's Organization">Ovamboland People's Organization</a> (OPO) and became its first and only president. During the next year he traveled Namibia in secret to spread the word about OPO. In September 1959, he joined the executive co