APC slams false reviews claiming Canadian Courtroom declared Party terrorist organisation

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has categorically dismissed media reviews claiming {that a} Canadian courtroom declared the occasion a terrorist organisation.

The clarification was issued in a press assertion signed by Felix Morka, Nationwide Publicity Secretary, on 15 August 2025 in Abuja.

The assertion defined that the reviews stem from a judicial determination within the case of Douglas Egharevba vs. the Minister of Public Security and Emergency Preparedness, during which the applicant sought a judicial overview of a choice by the Canadian Immigration Appeal Division (IAD).

The IAD had decided that Egharevba was inadmissible in Canada beneath its Immigration and Refugee Safety Act (IRPA).

In line with APC, the June 17, 2025, ruling by Decide Phuong T.V. Ngo dismissed Egharevba’s utility for overview as a result of he was “a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a corporation 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 courtroom’s determination was restricted to background data supplied by Egharevba himself.

“The one reference to APC in the complete 16-page determination was within the introductory ‘Background’, Paragraph 4, the place the courtroom referenced a ‘Background Declaration Kind’ during which the Applicant acknowledged that ‘he was a member of the Individuals’s Democratic Party [PDP] of Nigeria from December 1999 till December 2007, and a member of All Progressives Congress [APC] occasion of Nigeria from December 2007 till Might 2017,’” the assertion learn.

The occasion clarified that “APC was not in existence as of 2007. The Party was registered in 2013. The Applicant’s declare of membership of APC as of 2007 is evidently false as he couldn’t have been a member of APC that didn’t exist on the time.”

Morka additional pressured that the courtroom by no means made any willpower on terrorism. Quoting the choose immediately, the assertion famous: “Having discovered that the IAD’s evaluation on subversion was affordable, that is ample to dismiss the applying for overview. I’ll due to this fact chorus from analyzing the IAD’s findings on terrorism.”

The APC assertion described claims that the courtroom had labelled the occasion a terrorist organisation as “patently misguided, if not mischievous”.

It additional warned that any such determination would have been “an unjustifiable overreach, a significant breach of honest listening to, and of no extraterritorial applicability or significance.”

The occasion urged Nigerians and its supporters to ignore the deceptive reviews, emphasising that “the courtroom didn’t make such a declaration, and couldn’t have performed in order that may be an unjustifiable overreach.”