The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is desperately attempting to quell public scrutiny over the emergence of the imprint of Tinubu Presidential Legal Team on the Certified True Copy of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) judgement.
In a statement made available on its official Twitter page on Monday, PDP alleged that the rush by APC’s legal team to defend the imprint seen on the now public CTC of the tribunal ruling is a knee-jerk admission by the Tinubu Legal Team of its complicity in the widespread allegation that they authored it.
The statement reads: “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has meticulously examined the scandalous 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.
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“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.
“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 explains 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 given its notoriety for manipulations.”
TheNiche had earlier reported that both PDP and labour Party asked the PEPC to explain why the CTC of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal ruling had name of TPLT imprinted on it.
Nigerians have continued to ask the Tribunal to explain why it customised the name of the ruling party on one of the CTC it issued.
However, to quell the controversy, the Appeal Court uploaded the CTC on its official website on Monday morning.