President Uhuru Kenyatta and Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) boss will soon embark on a national tour to familiarize Kenyans with the content of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) taskforce report, it has emerged.
According to Jubilee Party Secretary General Raphael Tuju, the duo will use the tour, which will include top officials of their Jubilee and ODM parties respectively to explain to Kenyans the suggestions in the document.
He confirmed that Uhuru will be ready to join the referendum push in the instance that the 14-member team arrives at it as the best solution to the nation's problems, saying that “if it requires a referendum, the country will go that way.”
“I hope the two leaders will move around the country with the document, which says this is what we proposed and this is the direction the country should go, and this is what is going now to be reduced into a Bill,” he said on Thursday.
But he noted that in the instance that the proposed changes can be implemented in a simpler way, through the Parliament, then the two and their brigades will take that route.
"… that Bill either Parliament can pass it or if it requires a referendum then we go the way of a referendum because there are various ways of amending the Constitution — in Parliament or in a bipartisan way or through a referendum," he is quoted by the Nation.
Raila has repeatedly hinted that the initiative will culminate in a referendum to expand the executive, reintroduce the parliamentary governance system among others.
Uhuru, with whom they reached a truce last year, is also on record saying that the nation needs to have some changes which will abolish the current winner takes it all arrangement.
On the other hand is Deputy President William Ruto who appears opposed to the entire setting, judging by the remarks from his allies who have been directly attacking the BBI.