The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed as false and misleading media reports claiming that a Canadian court declared the party a terrorist organisation.
In a statement issued on Friday, August 15, 2025, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, said the reports were based on a misrepresentation of a court judgment and should be disregarded by the public.
According to the party, the controversy arose from a Canadian legal case between one Douglas Egharevba and the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. Egharevba had approached the court seeking a review of a decision by the Canadian Immigration Appeal Division (IAD) which declared him inadmissible under the country’s Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA).
The APC noted that in the judgment delivered on June 17, 2025, Justice Phuong T.V. Ngo dismissed Egharevba’s appeal after upholding the IAD’s finding that he was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and that the PDP was involved in acts of subversion under the provisions of the IRPA.
The court ruled that the IAD’s conclusion — that the PDP, its members, and supporters engaged in subversive acts against the Nigerian electoral process for the improper purpose of maintaining political power — was reasonable.
Morka emphasised that the APC was not the subject of the proceedings and that its only mention in the entire 16-page ruling appeared in the introductory “Background” section of the judgment.
He explained that in the “Background Declaration Form” submitted by Egharevba, the applicant had claimed to be a PDP member from December 1999 to December 2007, and an APC member from December 2007 to May 2017.
The APC, however, described the applicant’s claim as false, noting that the party did not exist in 2007 as it was only officially registered in 2013.
The statement further clarified that the court made no pronouncement declaring the APC or any of its members as terrorists.
Quoting the judgment, Morka said: “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 analyzing the IAD’s findings on terrorism.”
He stressed that any suggestion that the Canadian court had declared the APC a terrorist group was “patently erroneous” and “mischievous.”
The APC maintained that such a declaration would have been an unjustifiable overreach, a breach of fair hearing, and of no legal effect since the party was not a party to the proceedings and the court had no jurisdiction over it.
The statement warned that false reports of this nature were capable of misleading the public and damaging the reputation of the party both locally and internationally.
Morka called on APC members, supporters, and Nigerians in general to ignore the reports and focus on the party’s ongoing efforts to deliver on its promises to the people.
