In a dramatic and very controversial shift of the political scene, Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has come up with a daring proposition—a fusion of the 2027 General Election and national referendum.
Speaking on Wednesday, December 24, 2025, during a very high-level briefing, Mudavadi maintained that Kenya could no longer bear the luxury of separate electoral cycles, which is the case now that the country’s treasury is almost totally empty just with the Sh10 trillion debt ceiling already imposed.
The proposal is a very bold move that breaks away from the timeline laid out by the traditional democracy. Mudavadi’s “One-Day, Two-Destinies” scheme is all about putting the important constitutional changes directly into the 2027 voting boxes.
The government considers this to be a very smart way of managing the budget, while political observers see it as the ultimate “Constitutional Trap.”Mudavadi’s rationale rests on the economic survival issue.
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He claimed that the cash-strapped taxpayer would bear a burden of at least Sh15 billion for holding a standalone referendum, which is not the case according to the Prime CS, as the funds should go to the not-so-healthy Social Health Authority (SHA) plus school capitation.
The administration is asserting that in the process of merging both, it can create a “leaner democracy”—one that values service delivery rather than perpetual campaigning.On the contrary, the truth, which is bent, is the chance for administrative disorder that is being thrown up by this proposal.
By compelling the electorate to pick from the difficult-to-understand constitutional changes at the same time they are picking their next president, governors, and MPs, the government is literally giving an information overload.
This “Ballot Hijack” scenario could facilitate the passing of contentious amendments—possibly having to do with the composition of the Executive or the transition of the Prime CS role into a permanent one—with little or no scrutiny as the entire nation is glued to the presidential race.
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