PDP: Tinubu Legal Team’s Watermark Claim on PEPC Judgment Scandalous

Chuks Okocha in Abuja

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, said it had examined the  inscription of the Header of Tinubu Presidential Legal Team (TPLT) on the Certified True Copies (CTC) of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) judgement currently in circulation and found the explanation by the All Progressives  Congress (APC) to be scandalous and self-indicting.

The PDP, in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of party, Debo Ologinagba said, “The knee-jerk admission by the Tinubu Legal Team that it “scanned and watermarked” its copy of the judgment with the inscription, “Tinubu Presidential Legal Team TPLT” is self-indicting and lends credence to widespread public insinuation of pre-determined manipulation by the APC.

Ologunagba further said, “the rush by the TPLT in admitting that it imprinted on the CTC of the judgment smacks of a desperate attempt to dispel public scrutiny and ward off the possibility of more revelations regarding the issue.

“The PDP and indeed majority of Nigerians are not satisfied with the claims by the Tinubu Legal Team. This is especially as further examination and expert analysis show that the documents are not scanned and that the TPLT inscriptions are not watermarks but computer default header which usually originates from an author of a document.

“The PDP demands that the Tinubu Legal Team should explain how what obviously is a default header on its computer system should be accepted as a watermark.”

He asked that the Tinubu team should disclose to Nigerians “what specific time on Friday, September 8, 2023 they received their CTC; what time specifically was the ‘watermark’ imprinted of the document, the identity of the electronic device with which the ‘watermark’ was made as well as the PDF used in the said watermarking process for independent analysis.”

The PDP, therefore, demanded that the APC should come clean on the issue especially given its notoriety for manipulations.