Since 1999 til now, Nigeria has progressively gone downhill because of a serial tragic failure of leadership complicated by an unacceptable level of corruption,  youths unemployment with the various forms of dangerous social disorders  and the mass poverty it brings about, broken public educational and healthcare delivery systems, crumbled infrastructure, a bankrupt economy, gross and flagrant abuse of human rights and the utter disregard for rule of law and sadly, a frightening citizens-unconsciousness and apathy which reached a dangerous crescendo soon after 2015 when a new administration that was elected on the emotion of change that has now become a chain in a variety of ways came on stream to make the country poorer, most divided, unsafe and insecure and more vulnerable than at any other time in its history. 

Election after election in Nigeria has become progressively worse with planning, process, execution and outcomes because of frauds, corruption and government manipulation/interference with the activities of an uninsulated and dependent independent electoral commission whose leadership and staff mostly corrupt and because of an elite-imposed poverty which makes citizens vulnerable to selling their votes during party primaries and during general elections to those with stolen money but with absolutely nothing to give them and the country through leadership.

We at Open Nigeria are alarmed by the flagrant use of money by some presidential aspirants of our country's two biggest parties PDP and APC to buy delegates during their just concluded ridicule of party primaries that produced two questionable characters with everything but leadership to Nigeria and its suffering people if not challenged and stopped now.

The emergence of Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the APC and Atiku Abubakar of the PDP as the presidential candidates of their respective parties through massive vote-buying in the presence of INEC officials and security agencies is a criminal violation of Nigeria's laws with special reference to its electoral laws in which there is no provision for buying votes but instead, punishments for vote-buyers and sellers.

This criminal act that has supressed the emergence of beter qualified candidates from the two parties involved is a gross violation of the basic human rights to choice of the people of Nigeria who will be denied the opportunity more choices during the general election if nothing is done by the EFCC and the INEC to investigate and remedy it before the February 2023 date scheduled for the general election.

We therefore demand of the EFCC, POLICE, INEC, DSS and ICPC to move to investigate  all the presidential aspirants, including Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar to determine those who bought votes and also, summon all the party delegates for questioning to identify those of them who sold their votes for prosecution according to the laws of Nigeria.

We demand of the national assembly to prove its independence and commitment to working for Nigeria and Nigerians by passing a bill that will truly make INEC, EFCC, and ICPC truly independence to work for everyone in addition to passing two urgent bills with contents for "Indpendent candidacy and Diaspora voting".

Nigeria, a great country has now become such a ridiculous sovereign and territorial embarrassment. We can't take it anymore. We deserve an "Open Nigeria".