In light of the mischievous insinuations being made in certain quarters regarding the innocuous watermark of copies of the consolidated judgment of the Court of Appeal with the inscription -“Tinubu Presidential Legal Team ‘TPLT’”, has offered some clarification.
The team, in a statement made available to Theliberationnews by the coordinator, Babatunde Ogala, SAN, OFR, explained that consequent upon the delivery of judgment on Wednesday, September 6 in the three election petitions by the Court of Appeal, the Court directed its registry to make physical copies of same available on September 7, 2023.
Ogala added that, accordingly, the Tinubu Presidential Legal Team applied for a certified true copy of the said judgment and paid the prescribed fee.
He observed that Lawyers for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) were present at the registry at the same time to collect the same judgment.
His words: “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.”
