Africa-Press – Nigeria. The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has fired back at Justice Phuong Ngo of the Federal Court of Canada for labelling the party and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as terrorist organizations.
This is as the ruling party described the judge as an ignoramus.
A Canadian court had upheld a ruling that classified the APC and the PDP as terrorist organizations, while denying asylum to a former member, Douglas Egharevba, over his decade-long affiliation with both parties.
In a judgment delivered on June 17, 2025, Justice Ngo had dismissed Egharevba’s application for judicial review after the Immigration Appeal Division, IAD, found him inadmissible under Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, IRPA.
“The presiding judge must be an ignoramus! We are not party to the suit, and the court has no jurisdiction to determine the status of a Nigerian-recognized political party, not to talk of declaring it as a terrorist organization,” said APC scribe, Senator Ajibola Basiru.
According to him, the APC is a credible democratic political organization.
“It is unfortunate that some desperate and unpatriotic Nigerians will allow the name of the country to be brought to unpalatable commentary by racist judges on account of a self-contrived application for asylum.
“The so-called judgement was obviously delivered from a jaundiced perspective and within the narrow confines of determining eligibility for asylum by an applicant.
“The APC is a credible democratic political organization and does not seek legitimacy from a foreign bench and under a law that has no extraterritorial application,” he said.
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