{"id":174504,"date":"2025-08-15T13:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/canadian-court-ruling-and-ipob-de-proscription-argument"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:19:24","slug":"canadian-court-ruling-and-ipob-de-proscription-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/canadian-court-ruling-and-ipob-de-proscription-argument","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Court Ruling and IPOB De-proscription Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has explained why the group should be de-proscribed.<\/p>\n<p>Ejimakor said the ruling of a Canadian Court proscribing the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as terrorist organizations makes it imperative that IPOB should be de-proscribed.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Court of Canada had upheld a ruling that classified the APC and PDP as terrorist organisations.<\/p>\n<p>It gave the ruling while denying asylum to a former member, Douglas Egharevba, over his decade-long affiliation with both parties.<\/p>\n<p>In a judgment delivered on June 17, 2025, Justice Phuong Ngo dismissed Egharevba\u2019s application for judicial review after the Immigration Appeal Division, IAD, found him inadmissible under Canada\u2019s Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, IRPA.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Ejimakor posted on X: \u201cThe recent declaration by Canada that APC (Nigeria\u2019s ruling party) is a terrorist entity makes it more urgent &amp; imperative for the Nigerian government to de-proscribe #IPOB as the United Nations had directed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian government had proscribed IPOB in 2017, designating the group as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian government proscribed the group after considering IPOB\u2019s activities as a threat to Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, a High Court in Enugu nullified the proscription but the Appeal Court in Abuja upheld the ban in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has explained why the group should be de-proscribed. 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