I will only accept and support the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report if its good for me as a person, former Makadara Member of Parliament Benson Mutura has declared.
The ex-lawmaker says that nobody can push him into embracing the same, including President Uhuru Kenyatta, who has since asked politicians from the Mt Kenya region to back it.
But Mutura, who served on Uhuru's now defunct The National Alliance (TNA) ticket between 2013 and 2017 says that should the report propose a referendum, he will look at it personally.
"Even with the president's directive that we support the BBI, a constitution affects a person individually and not even my mother can force me on what way to follow (BBI, mimi hata kama rais akisema tuiunge mkono, katiba ni kuhusu mtu binafsi, hata mama yangu mwenyewe hawezi niambia vile nitafuata)," he said.
He made the remarks on Radio Jambo's Mazungumzo Waziwazi on Saturday.
He faulted the president for what he termed as rushing into the BBI debate, stating that he has not fully explained his 2018 truce with ODM leader Raila Odinga to Kenyans.
According to Mutura, given that the BBI is a scion of the handshake, there is need for Kenyans to be comfortable with the handshake before the BBI can follow.
"If we don't even understand the handshake, how about the BBI? (Sasa kama handshake hatuelewi, hii BBI ndio tutaelewa?)," he added.
The view is not unique to him, as a number of Uhuru's Jubilee Party members have also questioned the truce, suspecting that he could be out to sabotage some Jubilee members.