Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa has sought to distance the planned constitutional amendment forum set for Kakamega County on January 18, from ongoing Western Kenya's political tussles.
A section of area leaders, including Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi, is expected to snub the event, where the main theme will be the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) referendum push.
On Tuesday, Wamalwa declared that the meeting will be solely about the referendum issue, and will not be used to make any political declarations as others might think.
He stated that the function will not be used to debate the Luhya community political unity or declare the new Luhya political kingpin.
"This is not a Luhya unity meeting, it is not a Luhya supremacy battle and it's not a coronation of the Luhya king. We only had one king called Nabongo Mumia of Wanga," the CS said in a press conference.
The remarks follow earlier claims that the meeting will also be used to declare Kakamega governor Wycliffe Oparanya the Luhya kingpin, a seat currently seen as occupied by Mudavadi.
Oparanya, who also attended the presser, said that the Western Kenya region will use the forum to discuss the BBI report, before making an informed decision about it.
"We will be going through the first draft of the BBI and thereafter make our position known and propose other changes that we feel should he in the final report," said the county boss.
The meeting will follow a Nyanza edition of the same, which will be held in Kisii on Friday.