How Tinubu Presidential Legal Team appeared on PEPC judgement – APC lawyer reveals

 

A lawyer and co-ordinator of Tinubu Presidential Legal Team, Babatunde Ogala (SAN), has explained how the watermark Tinubu Presidential Legal Team appeared on the judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC).

The PEPC had on Wednesday delivered a judgement in which it dismissed the three different petitions filed against the election of President Bola Tinubu.

But a Certified True Copy of the judgement suddenly showed Tinubu Presidential Legal Team on the top page.

A cross section of Nigerians while commenting on the document have said that it showed that it was Tinubu Legal Team that prepared the judgement for the Tribunal .

Reacting to this Ogala in statement described suh comments as mischievous .

The statement reads in part, “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 September 6, 2023, the Court directed its registry to make physical copies of same available on September 7, 2023.

“Accordingly, the Tinubu Presidential Legal Team applied for a certified true copy of the said judgment and paid the prescribed fee. Lawyers for PDP were present at the registry at the same time to collect the same judgment.

“In fact, the representative of the PDP collected the first copy that was made available by the registry.

“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”.