Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed media reports claiming that a Canadian court declared the party a terrorist organisation, describing the reports as “patently erroneous, if not mischievous.”
In a press statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, CON, the APC clarified that the Canadian court’s ruling in the case of *Douglas Egharevba v. Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness* did not label the APC as a terrorist group.
The court’s decision, dated June 17, 2025, dismissed Egharevba’s application for judicial review, upholding a prior ruling by the Canadian Immigration Appeal Division (IAD) that deemed him inadmissible under the *Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA)*. The IAD had found that Egharevba was a member of Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which it classified as an organisation engaged in subversive acts against democratic processes.
Justice Phuong T.V. Ngo stated in the ruling: *“Applying the reasonableness standard of review, I cannot find the IAD’s conclusion that the Elections in question constituted a democratic process or institution and that the PDP, its members and supporters engaged in subversive acts committed against the electoral process for the improper purpose of maintaining political power to be unreasonable.”*
The APC emphasised that the only mention of the party in the 16-page judgment was in Paragraph 4, where Egharevba falsely claimed APC membership from 2007 to 2017—a claim the party debunked, noting that the APC was not formed until 2013.
Crucially, the court explicitly declined to rule on terrorism, stating: *“Having found that the IAD’s analysis on subversion was reasonable, this is sufficient to dismiss the application for review. I will therefore refrain from analysing the IAD’s findings on terrorism.”*
The APC described any suggestion that the court declared it a terrorist organisation as a “major breach of fair hearing,” stressing that the party was not a respondent in the case and that such a ruling would have no legal standing outside Canada.
The party urged its members, supporters, and the Nigerian public to disregard the misleading reports.
