The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed as “false and misleading” media reports claiming that a Canadian court declared the party a terrorist organisation.

 

In a statement on Friday, APC National Publicity Secretary Felix Morka said the court ruling in question made no such finding.

 

The controversy arose 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 Federal Court of Canada’s June 17, 2025 decision, delivered by Justice Phuong T.V. Ngo, dismissed the review based on Egharevba’s membership in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the IAD’s conclusion that the PDP engaged in subversive acts against the electoral process.

 

He explained that the APC was mentioned only once in the 16-page ruling—and only in a background section quoting Egharevba’s own claim that he was a PDP member from 1999 to 2007 and an APC member from 2007 to 2017.

 

“That claim is evidently false,” Morka said, “because the APC was only registered in 2013.”

 

Quoting the judgment, Morka stressed that the court expressly 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.”

 

 

 

He added that the APC was not a party to the proceedings and that the Canadian court had no jurisdiction to declare it a terrorist organisation.

 

The party urged its members and the public to disregard the reports entirely.