The Federal Court of Canada has upheld a ruling that classified Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress and the People’s Democratic Party, as terrorist organisations.
The classification came in the course of Justice Phuong Ngo’s delivering judgment on a former member of both parties, Douglas Egharevba’s asylum application.
Justice Ngo 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.
It has however sparked objections from chieftains of the ruling APC and the opposition PDP, with former Chief Corporate Communications Officer of NNPC Ltd, Mr Olufemi Soneye also having his say on the matter: “If democratic nations don’t push back on this kind of overreach, they may one day find their own politics on trial in a foreign court.”
