The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected media reports claiming a Canadian court labelled Nigeria’s ruling party a terrorist organisation.
In a statement issued on Friday by its spokesperson, Felix Morka, the APC said no such ruling was delivered, describing the reports as “highly erroneous.”
The party said the misrepresentation stemmed from a June 17, 2025 judgment in the case of Douglas Egharevba v. Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. The applicant, Douglas Egharevba, had sought to overturn a decision by Canada’s Immigration Appeal Division (IAD) declaring him inadmissible under the country’s Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA).
According to the APC, the court dismissed the application on the grounds that Egharevba was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which the IAD found had engaged in acts of subversion against Nigeria’s electoral process.
Morka noted that the APC’s name appeared only once in the 16-page judgment — in a background section where the applicant claimed to have been a member from 2007 to 2017. “For the record, APC was not in existence as of 2007,” he said. “The party was registered in 2013. The applicant’s claim is evidently false.”
He also stressed that the court made no finding on terrorism, quoting the judge’s words: “I will therefore refrain from analysing the IAD’s findings on terrorism.”
Morka added: “Reports that APC was declared a terrorist organisation are patently erroneous, if not mischievous. The party was not a party to the proceedings, and any such ruling would have been without jurisdiction or significance.”
