Nigeria, Aug. 16 -- A Canadian federal court did not designate Nigeria's two leading political parties as terrorist organisations as widely reported by many Nigerian news outlets, a review by PREMIUM TIMES has revealed.

The reports that the Canadian court declared the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the major opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as terrorist organisations have circulated widely across news platforms and social media since Thursday.

But a PREMIUM TIMES review of the 16-page judgement delivered in June by the Canadian court found the reports to be misleading.

From this newspaper's analysis, what the court actually did was hold the PDP culpable for the subversion of the democratic process by en...