Monrovia, Jan. 27 -- The opposition Citizens Movement for Change (CMC) has delivered a blistering assessment of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai's 2026 State of the Nation Address (SONA), dismissing the administration's claimed achievements as exaggerated, policy-induced, and disconnected from the harsh realities facing ordinary Liberians.

Speaking Monday, January 26, 2026, Political Leader of the CMC, Hon. Musa Hassan Bility, said the President's address relied heavily on "selective data points and celebratory rhetoric" while failing to confront Liberia's deep-rooted structural problems, including poverty, unemployment, weak healthcare, poor education, and continued dependence on foreign aid.

Bility said the CMC's response was not intende...