Stop mischief about watermark on PEPC judgement — Tinubu’s legal team

The Tinubu Presidential Legal Team (TPLT) had offered clarification on the mischievous insinuations being made in certain quarters regarding the innocuous water-mark of copies of the consolidated judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) with the inscription, ‘Tinubu Presidential Legal Team (TPLT)’.

The Coordinator of the Tinubu Presidential Legal Team, Mr Babatunde Ogala (SAN) explained in a statement in Abuja at the weekend that, after the delivery of judgment in the three election petitions against Tinubu’s election by the PEPC on September 6, 2023, the court directed its registry to make physical copies of same available to parties the next day.

Accordingly, the Tinubu Presidential Legal Team applied for a certified true copy of the said judgement and paid the prescribed fee.

Ogala said, Lawyers for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were present at the registry at the same time to collect the certified true copy of the same judgement and added that the representative of the PDP collected the first copy that was made available by the registry.

According to the statement, “On collecting our own copy, we immediately scanned and water-marked with the inscription, ‘Tinubu Presidential Legal Team, TPLT’ before circulating the scanned soft copies to the lawyers in our team.

“The certified true copies issued to us and other parties in the petitions by the registry do not contain the said inscription and any insinuation to the contrary is untrue.

“Counsel to the petitioners will also appreciate the fact that the insinuations being circulated in some quarters are untrue, unkind, unfair, and unfortunate, as they have the same certified copies of the judgment as we have,” Ogala explained in the statement.

 

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