President Uhuru Kenyatta could abandon the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), political analyst Kwendo Opanga has opined.
Uhuru formed the BBI task force following his March 9, 2018, handshake with Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party leader Raila Odinga after many years of being fierce political rivals.
The BBI team is expected to hand over its report to Uhuru and Raila in the next few days.
However, Opanga says the Head of State could decide to reject the report after leaders from Mt Kenya region threatened to oppose it, if it fails to meet their set 'irreducible mininum'.
The analyst said if Mt Kenya will not embrace the BBI, Uhuru, who is serving his second and final term, will forget about it and concentrate on achieving his Big Four Agenda.
"If BBI does not command support in his backyard, President Kenyatta will discard it in exchange for support for his legacy projects of housing, health, manufacturing and infrastructure," he wrote in his weekly column on Sunday Nation.
In a press conference in Nairobi on Thursday, about 40 leaders from Mt Kenya vowed to shoot down the BBI if it fails to address what they termed as “injustices in representation”, arguing the region is the most populous but has the least counties and constituencies.
Opanga termed the sentiments by the leaders as the 'thunder from the mountain' saying it complicated matters for their political kingpin.
"They put BBI and the President's legacy-bound Big Four under scrutiny and in jeopardy," he noted.
Political commentator and veteran journalist David Makali also claimed the president may decide to get rid of the eagerly awaited report.
"Suppose. Just suppose Uhuru Kenyatta receives the BBI report and keeps it on the shelves and says, 'this was for my use, tuendelee na kazi'. Hizo arguments zenu zote na ultimatum na kadhalika mtapeleka wapi? (..lets continue working. Where will you take the arguments and ultimatum you've been issuing?) Makali tweeted.