On January 23, Nika Melia, the chairman of the United National Movement, wrote on Facebook that they are now talking about some gifts. "All this, apart from being low behavior, is full of lies, speculations, and slanders," he added.

Nika Melia stated how he was allowed to purchase the secondhand car that Davit Kezerashvili, the former Minister of Defense of Georgia, sent. "It is really difficult for a respectable society to listen to everything that my opponents are talking about during the intra-party elections. Practically, not a single red line was left uncrossed. Today they are talking about some gifts. Apart from being low behavior, all this is full of lies, speculations, and slanders. I am sorry and even embarrassed to write on this topic, as the party and the country are facing huge challenges, but propaganda works like this: today, many people write about this topic, and I am obliged to tell the truth to the supporters," he wrote on his page.

He emphasized, "After getting out of prison, my friends thought I needed protection and, therefore, an additional car. I gave my family car to security while I was using the party's car (a Maserati), which Mr. Zaza Okuashvili gave to the party temporarily at the request of Koba Nakopia. I remember this car also caused the noise, but it was not mine. We did not need an additional car when one day Petre Ciskarishvili and Zurab Melikishvili told me that there was a used car in the party's garage that Davit Kezerashvili had sent. Of course, I did not ask him; it was his personal decision, and he later mentioned it during the phone conversation."

"After I saw Davit Kezerashvili's attempt to interfere in internal party processes, we tried several times (starting in June 2022) to return this car to him. Finally, a month and a half ago, I asked Bacho Dolidze to give the car to Kezerashvili's family member, Dima Chikovani, who did not accept it, and it is still in the party's garage. That is how this story was, not the way Merabishvili and Kezerashvili's supporting colleagues are spreading it," Melia concluded.