The governing All Progressives Congress (APC) has refuted media reports claiming that a Canadian court declared the party a terrorist organisation.
In a statement, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, clarified that the reports were erroneous and misleading.
According to the APC, the case in question involved Douglas Egharevba and the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, where the applicant sought judicial review of a decision by the Canadian Immigration Appeal Division.
CANADIAN COURT DID NOT DECLARE APC A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION
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. https://t.co/78DlGsI77A pic.twitter.com/MIsypZAXyl
— APC Nigeria (@OfficialAPCNg) August 15, 2025
On June 17, 2025, Judge Phuong T.V. Ngo dismissed the application, but the APC emphasised that this did not involve declaring the party a terrorist organisation.
According to the party, the only reference to APC in the entire 16-page 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 the 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 false, as he could not have been a member of APC, which didn’t exist at the time.”
The APC urges party faithful, supporters, and all Nigerians to disregard the reports as false and misleading, emphasising their lack of relevance and extraterritorial applicability.