Note that TNA cannot live with 40% mashinani. There is just no way they will agree to this. Yet no governor can ignore this and then go back to the electorate in 2017 to ask for votes.
I think Murungi is eating on both sides. For starters he wants his share of the 80 million for his Mbus. So his support for pesa mashinani is just the gun powder. However he is from a marginalized area and must leave his options open.
The man with cojones is Governor Munya. He is very clear: Legislate and we abandon the referendum. Well, could somebody tell me why Uhuru hasn't legislated the 40% yet? He will never because that, as Kivutha Kibwana says, would be the end of the attractive presidency as we know it.