Azimio leader Raila Odinga now says that the National government should not compete with the county governments.
Raila said the two levels of government are instead meant to complement one another.
Describing himself as a strong believer in Devolution, the ODM leader said the success of any country is pegged on the success of the county governments.
The former Prime minister noted that the national government should support the devolved units to deliver services to the people of Kenya.
"I believe the success of any one county takes the entire country forward. I believe that as a country, we are as strong as our counties and I want to give the government of Kenya Kwanza free advice that the national government does not need to compete with county governments.
"The county governments complement the national government and therefore the national government needs to support counties to deliver," Raila said on Wednesday.
Raila spoke on Wednesday at the Homa Bay County International Investment Conference.
The ODM party leader called on Investors at the conference to consider working closely with the countries.
He vouched for the counties as competent and critical actors in the realisation of national and global development goals.
His remarks come even as the counties and the national government remain embroiled in a tiff over the revenue allocation.
According to CoG chairperson Anne Waiguru, the talks that had last week ended in a stalemate have borne no fruitful agreement, even after they agreed to form a task team to further deliberate to achieve a consensus.
The CoG chair noted that while they came up with a figure of Sh439.5 billion as an equitable share to the counties and Sh10.52 billion as a Road Maintenance Levy Fund, the National Treasury proposed Sh391 billion and the CRA proposed Sh398.14 billion.
