diff --git a/tests/spec_decode/e2e/test_integration_dist_tp2.py b/tests/spec_decode/e2e/test_integration_dist_tp2.py
index 5534b80c0aaa..859d4234c458 100644
--- a/tests/spec_decode/e2e/test_integration_dist_tp2.py
+++ b/tests/spec_decode/e2e/test_integration_dist_tp2.py
@@ -70,10 +70,6 @@ def test_target_model_tp_gt_1(baseline_llm_generator, test_llm_generator,
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "common_llm_kwargs",
     [{
-        # Use a small model for a fast test.
-        # Note this is repeated in the test body; to initialize a tokenizer.
-        "model": "JackFram/llama-68m",
-
         # Skip cuda graph recording for fast test.
         "enforce_eager": True,
 
@@ -88,15 +84,31 @@ def test_target_model_tp_gt_1(baseline_llm_generator, test_llm_generator,
         # second run of the test to fail with internal NCCL error.
         "use_async": True,
     }])
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("per_test_common_llm_kwargs", [{}])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("baseline_llm_kwargs", [{}])
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("test_llm_kwargs", [
-    {
-        "speculative_model": "JackFram/llama-68m",
-        "num_speculative_tokens": 5,
-        "speculative_draft_tensor_parallel_size": 1,
-    },
-])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "per_test_common_llm_kwargs, test_llm_kwargs",
+    [
+        (
+            {
+                # Use a small model for a fast test.
+                # Note this is repeated in the test body; to initialize a
+                # tokenizer.
+                "model": "JackFram/llama-68m",
+            },
+            {
+                "speculative_model": "JackFram/llama-68m",
+                "num_speculative_tokens": 5,
+                "speculative_draft_tensor_parallel_size": 1,
+            }),
+        ({
+            "model": "ibm-granite/granite-3b-code-instruct",
+        }, {
+            "speculative_model":
+            "ibm-granite/granite-3b-code-instruct-accelerator",
+            "num_speculative_tokens": 5,
+            "speculative_draft_tensor_parallel_size": 1,
+        })
+    ])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("batch_size", [2])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("seed", [1])
 def test_draft_model_tp_lt_target_model_tp2(test_llm_generator,
diff --git a/vllm/config.py b/vllm/config.py
index b919b212da4f..66338cb0d882 100644
--- a/vllm/config.py
+++ b/vllm/config.py
@@ -957,12 +957,6 @@ def maybe_create_spec_config(
             )
 
             draft_hf_config = draft_model_config.hf_config
-            if (draft_hf_config.model_type == "mlp_speculator"
-                    and target_parallel_config.world_size != 1):
-                # MLPSpeculator TP support will be added very soon
-                raise ValueError(
-                    "Speculative decoding with mlp_speculator models does not "
-                    "yet support distributed inferencing (TP > 1).")
 
             if (num_speculative_tokens is not None
                     and hasattr(draft_hf_config, "num_lookahead_tokens")):
diff --git a/vllm/spec_decode/spec_decode_worker.py b/vllm/spec_decode/spec_decode_worker.py
index ca470bee21c9..43ce987de1e1 100644
--- a/vllm/spec_decode/spec_decode_worker.py
+++ b/vllm/spec_decode/spec_decode_worker.py
@@ -113,24 +113,28 @@ def create_worker(
             draft_worker_kwargs.pop("ngram_prompt_lookup_min"))
 
         disable_bonus_tokens = True
+
         if ngram_prompt_lookup_max > 0:
             disable_bonus_tokens = False
             proposer_worker = NGramWorker(**draft_worker_kwargs)
             proposer_worker.set_ngram_window_size(ngram_prompt_lookup_min,
                                                   ngram_prompt_lookup_max)
-        elif draft_worker_kwargs[
-                "model_config"].hf_config.model_type == "mlp_speculator":
-            proposer_worker = MLPSpeculatorWorker(**draft_worker_kwargs)
-            disable_bonus_tokens = False
         else:
             draft_parallel_config: ParallelConfig = draft_worker_kwargs[
                 'parallel_config']
             draft_tp = draft_parallel_config.tensor_parallel_size
             target_tp = scorer_worker.parallel_config.tensor_parallel_size
 
-            if draft_tp == 1:
-                draft_worker_kwargs["model_runner_cls"] = TP1DraftModelRunner
-            proposer_worker = MultiStepWorker(**draft_worker_kwargs)
+            if draft_worker_kwargs[
+                    "model_config"].hf_config.model_type == "mlp_speculator":
+                disable_bonus_tokens = False
+                proposer_worker = MLPSpeculatorWorker(**draft_worker_kwargs)
+            else:
+                if draft_tp == 1:
+                    draft_worker_kwargs[
+                        "model_runner_cls"] = TP1DraftModelRunner
+                proposer_worker = MultiStepWorker(**draft_worker_kwargs)
+
             proposer_worker = SmallerTpProposerWorker.maybe_wrap_worker(
                 proposer_worker, draft_tp, target_tp)