Thirdway Alliance Party Leader Ekuru Aukot on Thursday suffered another blow after four of the five constituencies of Nyandarua county rejected his Punguza Mizigo bill.
Aukot has been crisscrossing the nation in pursuit of backing for the bill, which has only been passed by only one assembly, Uasin Gishu.
On Thursday, locals who turned up for public participation poured cold water on the bill, in forums that were not well attended in the first place.
Locals in Ol Joro Orok, Ol Kalou, Kipipiri and Ndaragua took issue with its proposals, including the single term presidential term and the amendment of constituency boundaries.
In Ol Kalou, the sitting was held at the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) hall under the chairmanship of area ward representative Ken Mukira, with a similar blow being felt in Kipipiri.
"Nyandarua County is too big to be represented by only two elected leaders. There already exists a big discrepancy in sharing of natural resources and the proposed amendments will worsen an already worse situation, it does not conclusively address the issues of distribution and sharing of the national resource once the constituencies are merged,” said one Mr Zachariah Mwaura.
This was in reference to Aukot's proposal that counties be represented by two people, a man and a woman, in the place of the many MPs currently representing the devolved units.
Mr Mukira who led similar forums in Kinangop on Friday confirmed that the bill is very unlikely to survive.
“Tabling of the report is listed among priority House Business once we resume on 23rd of October. The majority of residents have already rejected the document, a fact that we must include in our report then allow the House to debate and members to individually vote in support or rejecting the document,” he said.