The All Progressives Congress (APC) has debunked media reports claiming that a Canadian court declared the party a terrorist organisation.
In a statement on Friday, the party described the reports as “highly erroneous” and “mischievous,” clarifying that the case in question—Douglas Egharevba v. Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness—never involved any ruling branding the APC as a terrorist group.
The case, decided on June 17, 2025, by Judge Phuong T.V. Ngo, concerned the applicant’s bid to overturn a Canadian Immigration Appeal Division (IAD) decision declaring him inadmissible under Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). The court dismissed the application on the grounds that the applicant was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which the IAD found had engaged in “acts of subversion” against Nigeria’s electoral process.
According to the APC, the only reference to the party in the 16-page judgment appeared in the “Background” section, where the applicant claimed to have been an APC member from 2007 to 2017. The party stressed that this claim was false, noting that the APC was only registered in 2013.
Citing the judge’s own words, the statement emphasised: “I will therefore refrain from analysing the IAD’s findings on terrorism.” APC noted that it was not a party to the proceedings, and therefore no legal determination could have been made against it.
The party urged members and Nigerians to dismiss the reports as baseless, stating that any suggestion of such a declaration “would be an unjustifiable overreach” and “of no extraterritorial applicability or significance.”
