Thirdway Alliance Party Leader Ekuru Aukot has responded to National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale's attacks on his push for constitutional amendments.
In his remarks earlier, Duale poked holes into the Punguza Mizigo bill, predicting its collapse on the basis that the person pushing it is personally a loser who enjoys no backing whatsoever.
He pointed out that Aukot terribly lost in his presidential bid in 2017, adding that he also lacks even a single elected member, questioning his expectations of a positive outcome.
"Ekuru Aukot has no single MCA (member of county assembly). He lost terribly in the presidential, senatorial, gubernatorial, parliamentary and county assembly elections and didn't even qualify to get one nominated MCA, so how doss he expect his bill to sail through," he said.
But in response on Citizen TV's Newsnight on Tuesday, Aukot hit back, accusing Duale of being a simplistic thinker who thinks that changes can only go through elected persons.
He noted that the debate should be about the entire nation and not people holding elective seats, faulting Duale for poking holes in the hill rather than backing it for the sake of his people.
“Duale is so simplistic in his thinking, he is a guy who sucks up to the system for survival, I’m bigger than that kind of thinking; I look at Kenya," she said.