PDP Faults Tinubu Legal Team’s Watermark Claim On PEPC Judgment

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said 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 are not watermarks but a computer default header which originates from an author of a document.

The party stated this while dismissing what it described as 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’.

The party said the claim is self-indicting and lends credence to widespread public insinuation of pre-determined manipulation by the APC.

Recall that barely hours after PDP candidate, Atiku Abubakar complained about the delay by the PEPC to give it CTC of the judgement, a copy of judgement had emerged on social media with the inscription of the Header of Tinubu Presidential Legal Team (TPLT).

Upon a reaction from Atiku on the oddity of the inscription, coordinator of Tinubu’s legal team, Babatunde Ogala, in a statement, explained that they watermarked their copy of the judgement after collection from the Court of Appeal before circulating the scanned copies to members of their team.

Reacting however, the PDP national publicity secretary, Hon Debo Ologunagba 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.

In a statement, the PDP spokesman said the party and 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.

“The Tinubu Legal Team should also 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 devise with which the ‘watermark’ was made as well as the PDF used in the said watermarking process for independent analysis.

“The PDP demands that the All Progressives Congress (APC) should come clean on the issue especially its notoriety for manipulations,” the party said