The All Progressives Congress, APC, has dismissed media reports claiming a Canadian court declared the party a terrorist organisation.
The APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, in a statement on Friday, described the reports as “false and misleading,” insisting that the court ruling in question made no such finding.
The controversy stems from the case of Douglas Egharevba v. Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, in which Egharevba sought judicial review of a decision by Canada’s Immigration Appeal Division (IAD) that found him inadmissible under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA).
According to Morka, the court’s June 17, 2025 decision by Justice Phuong T.V. Ngo dismissed the review based on Egharevba’s membership in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the IAD’s finding that the PDP engaged in subversive acts against the electoral process.
Morka noted that APC was mentioned only once in the 16-page ruling—in a background section quoting Egharevba’s claim that he had been a PDP member from 1999 to 2007 and an APC member from 2007 to 2017.
The APC spokesperson said the claim was “evidently false” since the party was only registered in 2013.
Citing the judgment, Morka stressed that the court explicitly declined to rule on terrorism: “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.”
The APC maintained that the court had no jurisdiction to declare it a terrorist organisation and that it was not a party to the proceedings.
The party urged its members and the public to disregard the reports.