The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the knee-jerk admission by Tinubu Presidential Legal Team (TPLT) that it scanned and watermarked” its copy of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) judgement currently in circulation was self-indicting and lends credence to widespread public insinuation of pre-determined manipulation by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, in a statement issued Monday, maintained that 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.
He insisted that the PDP and indeed majority of Nigerians are not satisfied with the claims by the Tinubu Legal Team.
Ologunagba emphaised that 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.
To this end, the PDP demanded that the Tinubu Legal Team should explain how what obviously was a default header on its computer system should be accepted as a watermark.
Ologunagba added: “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 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.
“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 PDP also demanded that the APC should come clean on the issue especially given its notoriety for manipulations.