As the countdown to the 2017 Cross River State local government elections continue to generate bubbles, TheScribe with its radar in continuation of beaming its searchlight at the aspirants/candidates vying for the most coveted LGA position is once again here with the image on the radar screen. Our focus at this juncture is Mr. Declan Ogar-Genesis.
Frequent users of social media, precisely facebook would agree with TheScribe that on daily basis, the airwaves is continually flooded with campaign pictures and pre-electoral manifestos which Declan's pictures and promises during his consultations are equally causing online gridlock.
In every election, they're pretenders and contenders — and one thing that differentiate them is the level of seriousness demonstrated by them. If seriousness is a factor one should consider in knowing who's prepared in contesting election, then Mr. Declan is indeed ready.
His readiness and preparedness ranges from his academic qualification and capacity added value of experience. Declan is an alumni of the famous University of Calabar. He's a sociologist by training and a criminologist in the making.
Prior to his appointment as the Special Assistant to the governor, Prof. Ben Ayade on Youth Affairs since 2015, he was a personnel of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) and an active member of the 2015 general elections PDP media/publicity committee. At that time, he played the role of 'Squealer', a secondary antagonist of Napoleon.
As it were then, he was a squealer in Ayade media team. Squealer is a fictional character in George Orwell's magnum opus, Animal Farm. A role he played so well that on social media, he was dubbed as the minister of propaganda. TheScribe would gladly described him as the cosmetic social media aide of Ayade.
Declan Ogar-Genesis is the joker in the contest. He's a young man that's unafraid of challenges. A dogged and self-motivated fighter that never relent until he achieves whatever he set to get. He heads De-Genesis Communication and Genesis Photos International Ltd.
During his undergraduate days, he was actively involved in students' unionism and youths activism. In the business of pen pushing, he was a fine campus pressman. He cut his teeth in some of the most vibrant Press outfits such as Echo Press Organization; Socioscope, Nigerian Federation of Catholic Students (NFCS) press board and the Nigeria Union of Campus Journalists (NUCJ). Also, he was the Sole Administrator of National Association of Yala Local Government Students (NAYLOGS) and Secretary General, Faculty of Social Science Students Association (SOSSA).
His high level of activism both off and in school connected him with likes minds and they jointly established many youths related organizations such as Cross River State Coalition for Change (CRSCFC); youth Connect International and Cross River State Progressive People's Forum (NCRSPPF) among others. He's the publisher of the defunct ParadiseVoice, an online media platform used in 2015 in publicizing Sen. Ben Ayade.
Politically, he isn't a pushover in the race for the chairmanship position. He's close to the governor and other stakeholders in his party. However, TheScribe is hearing from reliable sources that his boss (Ayade) isn't being fair with him.
Among the 8-council wards in Yala, he's from Ugaga ward. Since the creation of the local government area in 1991 by Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, Ugaga ward hasn't been able to produce substantive executive chairman of the local government. Albeit, when barracks boys, sorry when military struck, Caretaker Committee was constituted in 1994 to the dawn of 1995 and was then supervised by Hon. Declan J. Ogar who equally comes from Ugaga ward.
His major challenges are his emaciated financial muscle; himself and the ward he's coming from as candidate when taken into consideration in terms of which ward has benefitted or has not. Besides the aforesaid, he's good to go.
Ayi! Ayi-yala. Behold your chairmanship aspirant, Mr. Declan Ogar-Genesis (DOG). He's vying for the position under the platform of PDP.
Next on the radar is Mr. Paul Ofana Odey from Olachor Okpoma.
Comr. Ogar, Emmanuel Oko
Publisher of TheScribe and Observer.
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