COMMENT Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak may have shrugged off the threat of a parliamentary no-confidence vote against him but, apparently, other perils lie in wait for him.

At first the initial portents of trouble on the party - as different to parliamentary - front did not look menacing when last month the chiefs of 13 Umno branches in the Telok Kemang division in Negri Sembilan urged the president’s resignation.