COMMENT Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's frequent deferment of the polls was always a risky strategy given the propensity of his government to suffer blowouts from ongoing disclosures of serial malfeasance.

It was figured the quicker the polls were done with the safer it would be for the PM, whereas tardiness would leave his government dangerously undermined by the sleuthing Rafizi Ramlis of the opposition, heightening in their wake the possibility of calamitous results for the ruling BN at the eventual ballot.

Now that strategy of deferral is in grave peril of coming apart at the seams on account of disclosures already made and threatened further, and it bodes mortal peril for Najib's tenancy as prime minister.

It's no more a question of whether it will be polls in early March or in June; it's whether it will be Najib as the PM or someone else in Umno who will make that trip to the palace to request the king for Parliament's dissolution.

Or would it be some other scenario - at this stage the possibilities are, to say the least, surreal...