Politician Stanley Livondo now claims that there are plans to use the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) forum set for Kakamega County to unveil the Western Kenya political spokesman.
Livondo alleges that COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli is planning to use the meeting set for Bukhungu Stadium on January 18 to make the declaration.
He has told off the trade unionist, accusing him of politicizing the push for constitutional changes, and now wants him to keep off Luhya political matters and focus on trade unions.
"Atwoli is a trade unionist and not a politician. Let him not use the BBI function to coronate a Luhya kingpin. (Atwoli ni mtu wa union. Yeye sio mwanasiasa, asitumie mkutano wa BBI eti kutawaza kiongozi wa waluhya)," Livondo said on Wednesday night.
He spoke on Radio Citizen's Pata Shika, also attended by nominated MP Godfrey Osostsi and former MP Joseph Nteruaki.
Livondo, a former Lang'ata parliamentary hopeful, said that he will not be attending the Kakamega meeting if it will be used to make political declarations and not discussing BBI.
"Atwoli should respect his uncles. That is his own meeting, I will not attend it. (Atwoli arespect wajomba wake. Hiyo ni mkutano yake sitaenda)," he added.
But the remarks come only a day after Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa, in a press conference, said that the meeting will be solely about the BBI debate.
Initial details indicated that the meeting might be used to declare Kakamega governor Wycliffe Oparanya the new Luhya spokesman.