The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has stated that President Bola Tinubu’s legal team only indicts themselves with their watermark claims.
In a press statement signed by Hon. Debo Ologunagba, National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, the party stated that the “admission by the Tinubu Legal Team that it ‘scanned and watermarked’ its copy of the judgement 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.”
Demanding that the All Progressive Congress (APC) come clean on the matter, the PDP demanded that “the Tinubu Legal Team explain how what obviously is a default header on its computer system should be accepted as a watermark.”
The statement reads, “The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has meticulously examined the scandalous inscription of the Header of the Tinubu Presidential Legal Team (TPLT) on the Certified True Copies (CTC) of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) judgement currently in circulation.
“The PDP further noted that the claims of the President’s legal team are a desperate attempt to “dispel public scrutiny and ward off the possibility of more revelations regarding the issue.”
“The knee-jerk admission by the Tinubu Legal Team that it “scanned and watermarked” its copy of the judgement 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.
“The rush by the TPLT in admitting that it imprinted on the CTC of the judgement smacks of a desperate attempt to dispel public scrutiny and ward off the possibility of more revelations regarding the issue.
“The PDP and indeed the majority of Nigerians are not satisfied with the claims by the Tinubu Legal Team. This is especially true as further examination and expert analysis show that the documents were not scanned and that the TPLT inscriptions are not watermarks but computer default headers, which usually originate from the author of a document.
“The PDP demands that the Tinubu Legal Team explain how what is obviously 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 on 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) come clean on the issue, especially given its notoriety for manipulations.”
