The Tinubu Presidential Legal Team (TPLT) has dismissed accusations that the certified true copy of the judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court contains watermark of the team.
Describing the allegation as untrue, unkind, unfair, and unfortunate, the legal team explained that, while it received its copy from the court registry without watermark, it “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”.
In a statement on Saturday, TPLT Coordinator, Hon. Babatunde Ogala, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, said that all the parties to the suit collected the same certified copies of the judgement, stressing that lawyers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were the first to collect their copy from the registry.
The statement reads: “Following some mischievous insinuations being made in certain quarters regarding the innocuous water-mark of copies of the consolidated judgment of the Court of Appeal with the inscription – Tinubu Presidential Legal Team TPLT, it is has become necessary to offer this clarification.
“After the delivery of judgment in the 3 (Three) election petitions by the Court of Appeal on 6th September 2023, the Court directed its registry to make physical copies of same available on 7th September 2023.
“Accordingly, the Tinubu Presidential Legal Team applied for a certified true copy of the said judgement and paid the prescribed fee.
“Lawyers for PDP were present at the registry at the same time to collect the same judgement. In fact, the representative of the PDP collected the first copy that was made available by the registry”.
Continuing, the legal practitioner said, “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 judgement as we have”.
