The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed media reports claiming a Canadian court declared the party a terrorist organization.
Its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka on Friday described the reports as “false and misleading,” insisting the court made no such determination.
The controversy stems from a June 17, 2025 ruling in the case of Douglas Egharevba vs. the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, in which the applicant challenged a decision by Canada’s Immigration Appeal Division (IAD) declaring him inadmissible under the country’s Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.
According to Morka, the court’s decision focused on Egharevba’s membership in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which the judge said had engaged in acts of subversion against Nigeria’s electoral process. The judge upheld the IAD’s finding on subversion and explicitly declined to rule on terrorism allegations.
“To be clear, the only reference to APC in the entire 16-paged decision was in the introductory “Background”, Paragraph 4, where the court referenced a “Background Declaration Form in which the Applicant stated that “he was a member of the People’s Democratic Party [PDP] of Nigeria from December 1999 until December 2007, and a member of All Progressives Congress [APC] party of Nigeria from December 2007 until May 2017,
“For the record, APC was not in existence as of 2007. The Party was registered in 2013. The Applicant’s claim of membership of APC as of 2007 is evidently false as he could not have been a member of APC that didn’t exist at the time,
“For the avoidance of doubt, we make bold to state that the court never made any determination on the question of terrorism in its decision. In the Judge’s own words:
“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.” Morka said in a statement.
He stressed that APC was not a party to the proceedings and that any declaration against it would have been “an unjustifiable overreach” with no jurisdictional or legal effect.
Morka urged party members, supporters, and Nigerians at large to disregard the reports, calling them “patently erroneous, if not mischievous.”