Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein has not taken a recent survey which picked him as the most suitable candidate to take over as prime minister.
Dismissing the Merdeka Centre poll, the Umno vice-president said he did not take the survey seriously, The Star Online reports.
“(I) don’t depend too much on surveys. There was one a few months back during the Umno general assembly that I was not even competent to be a vice-president. In the next few months, there could be a survey that I am there to take over as prime minister. That itself answers the level of reliance I personally put on such surveys,” the 53-year-old Defence Minister was quoted as saying.
“This (survey) is an attempt to pit Umno leaders against each other,” he was quoted further.
On Wednesday, The Malaysian Insider published the findings of a poll — commissioned by them — which singled out Hishammuddin as the most likely future prime minister with 19.8 per cent of the 1,008 respondents on his side.
Other names in the poll were Khairy Jamaluddin (8.6 per cent), Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (8.4 per cent), Rafizi Ramli (3.9 per cent), Mohamed Azmin Ali (3.7 per cent) and Nurul Izzah Anwar (1.7 per cent).
The poll was conducted in January.
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