The 2022 presidential running mate, Justina Wamae, has rubbished Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi’s push to have a constitutional referendum alongside the 2027 general election.

While speaking during an interview with a local TV station on Wednesday, December 24, 2025, Mudavadi said the referendum should be introduced as the seventh question during the 2027 polls.

According to him, since Kenyans will already be going to the ballot to elect the six elective positions, a seventh question should be placed on a separate ballot, just like the six elective slots to allow citizens to vote on key constitutional issues that have bedevilled the country for a long time.

Referendum push

“But we have an opportunity to correct some things, in my view, and this perhaps is the better time where we can introduce some referendum issues to this election,” Mudavadi said.

Responding to Mudavadi’s push, Justina Wamae took to X on Monday, January 5, 2025, adding that simply implementing the 2010 Constitution does not mean Kenya’s great leap forward. She instead accused the senior political class of messing up the same Constitution.

”This same constitution that these old guards who have messed up this country were part of its making? Don’t get me started, when you say that the policies and legislations are there, they just need implementing, which are these? Those who were/are part of the problem at the same time had/have good solutions in the constitution, policies and legislations they came up with? Wacheni jokes” Wamae said.

Wamae added that what Kenay needs is policy implementation. ”What the country needs is innovative and progressive policies and legislative proposals to create wealth for the nation, Kenya and her citizens; anything else is shenanigans,” she said.

Maraga’s contrary opinion

Initially, former Chief Justice David Maraga warned against renewed calls to amend the 2010 Constitution, insisting that the country does not face a constitutional crisis but rather a failure of leadership, integrity, and implementation.

In a statement released on Monday, December 29, 2025, Maraga said the sanctity of the Constitution is once again under threat, accusing the current administration of seeking constitutional changes for political convenience rather than the public good. 

”The recent remarks by high-ranking government officials, including Mr Musalia Mudavadi, suggesting a need to alter or amend our Constitution is both political theatre and shameless disregard for a Constitution that holds the unfulfilled hopes of the people,” Maraga said.