The Senate yesterday night said it had no plan to spend N50‎ billion to buy cars for its members as claimed by President Muhammadu Buhari in his maiden media chat on Wednesday.

In a statement by its spokesperson, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, the Senate, however, admitted that it was contemplating purchasing cars, but stated that it did not intend to spend anything close to the various figures of N4.5billion, N6billion or N50billion.

He added that shortly after getting the management team and the Senate Services Committee to commence the due process for the purchase, certain contractors who took part in the bidding for the supply of the vehicles but felt their bid would not scale through began sponsoring media propaganda against the project and even leaked the recommendations of the body working on the proposed project.

“Since the claim in an online medium that we are planning to purchase vehicles, we have not taken any further action on the issue. We are surprised that a proposed purchase became a subject of controversy and several figures that are far from our projections have been bandied around.”