The All Progressives Congress (APC) has categorically dismissed media reviews claiming {that a} Canadian court docket declared the celebration a terrorist organisation.
The clarification was issued in a press assertion signed by Felix Morka, National Publicity Secretary, on 15 August 2025 in Abuja.
The assertion defined that the reviews stem from a judicial resolution within the case of Douglas Egharevba vs. the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, by which the applicant sought a judicial overview of a call by the Canadian Immigration Appeal Division (IAD).
The IAD had decided that Egharevba was inadmissible in Canada beneath its Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA).
According to APC, the June 17, 2025, ruling by Judge Phuong T.V. Ngo dismissed Egharevba’s utility for overview as a result of he was “a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), an organization engaged in acts of subversion pursuant to paragraph 34(1)(b.1) of the IRPA making him inadmissible in Canada.”
The press assertion emphasised that APC’s point out within the court docket’s resolution was restricted to background data offered by Egharevba himself.
“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 All Progressives Congress [APC] party of Nigeria from December 2007 until May 2017,’” the assertion learn.
The celebration clarified that “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.”
Morka additional pressured that the court docket by no means made any dedication on terrorism. Quoting the choose straight, the assertion famous: “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 assertion described claims that the court docket had labelled the celebration a terrorist organisation as “patently erroneous, if not mischievous”.
It additional warned that any such resolution would have been “an unjustifiable overreach, a major breach of fair hearing, and of no extraterritorial applicability or significance.”
The celebration urged Nigerians and its supporters to ignore the deceptive reviews, emphasising that “the court did not make such a declaration, and could not have done so as that would be an unjustifiable overreach.”
