Prime Minister Raila Odinga has dismissed claims by a section of legislators that the executive is to blame for the aborted Naivasha retreat to discuss and build consensus on the proposed constitution.

Speaking in parliament Raila accused MPs hypocrisy saying they themselves shot down the adjournment motion on Wednesday aborting the planned retreat.

Earlier, the Party of National Unity had accused the PM of plotting defeat of a motion of adjournment.

Addressing the press at the party headquarters after a parliamentary group meeting, Tigania East MP Peter Munya claimed that Raila used ODM MPs to shoot down the motion for fear of PNU using the retreat to push for amendments to certain clauses in the draft constitution.

He said PNU will still push for MPs retreat next week.

PNU is uncomfortable with a powerful senate which has powers to impeach the president.

But ODM wants the proposed constitution adopted in its current form.

Meanwhile experts say the planned Naivasha retreat wasill informed and would have created more rifts among the political class.

Political analyst James Simekha says that the parliamentary Select Committee on the Constitution should change tact on consensus building saying that the retreat would have been viewed as an attempt to mutilate the work of the Committee of Experts on Constitutional review.

Speaking to KBC on phone, Simekha also said that the political class must rise to the occasion and support the proposed constitution adding that Kenyans will be keenly watching the debate in parliament.

On Wednesday evening, MPs voted against the three-day retreat during which they were to be taken through the proposed constitution before commencement of debate next week.

The adjournment motion was defeated after 25 MPs voted against it and 23 for it.