The senator representing Edo South Senatorial District in the upper chamber, under the platform of the Labour Party (LP), Senator NEDA Imansuen has explained it would have amounted to nothing, if the eight senators from the LPhad rejected the N160 million luxury Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs), provided for each senator as official vehicles.
Imansuen who stated this in Benin over the weekend while fielding questions from journalists, added that with just eight members in the red chambers, LP members’ rejection of the luxury SUVs would not have changed the decision as the majority would still have gone ahead to purchase the vehicles despite the criticism that greeted the venture from a cross-section of Nigerians.
Imansuen, who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions, however, said if the matter were to be brought to the floor of the house, LP senators would definitely vote against it.
Source: Tribune
