If the Constitution must be changed for the unity deal between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga to last, Jubilee Party was ready to 'kill' the handshake.
Secretary-General Raphael Tuju said the ruling party will not be held hostage by the opposition, adding that the handshake can end if it was meant to distract the government from delivering on its mandate.
Speaking to the Nation on Tuesday, Tuju dismissed the push by Raila to amend the law to change the structure of the government, saying that was not part of Uhuru's Big Four Agenda.
"We have had handshakes before. In 2008, Raila and Mwai Kibaki shook hands; but did that reduce the rate of unemployment? No.
The debate we should be having now is how to create jobs for the youth, and nowhere does that discussion include the structure of the Executive," he said.
The Secretary-General said that the country would require at least four years to change the supreme law as the current crippled IEBC would need to be reconstituted for them to oversee a smooth exercise, observing that would derail the Jubilee agenda.
"If we are going to conduct a referendum that will take that long, when will we deliver the Big Four? There will be no referendum between now and 2022," Tuju reiterated.