Boko should stop the fighting and start the delivering

With his theme of 'Delivering on Our Promise, One Step at a Time', he sought to project an image of a focused, determined leader building a new ‘Rome’. Sadly, parts of his speech were not about laying bricks, but about settling old scores.

It is deeply worrying that a head of government would use such a pivotal national address to launch another bitter broadside against the media and his political detractors. His portrayal of the "entire press corps" as "aroused, mobilised, and weaponised" against his party is not just an exaggeration, but also a dangerous dismissal of a pillar of our democracy. To speak of the "most beautiful symphony of comeuppance" is not the language of a unifying leader. It is the language of a combatant still fighting an election that he has already won.