After ruffling the feathers of MACC chief commissioner Dzulkifli Ahmad with his primate remark, Lim Kit Siang continues to churn out animal analogies.

This time around, the DAP veteran discovered two ponies from Sabah, which he claimed were not adept at performing new tricks.

In his first media statement, Lim trained his guns on Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Abdul Rahman Dahlan (photo) for claiming that the DAP leader would be the next prime minister if the opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan wins the general election.

The opposition leader described the Sabah lawmaker as a “one-trick pony”.

In a subsequent media statement about an hour later, the DAP leader had another Sabah BN leader – Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keruak - in his crosshairs over the latter's blog posting titled “Kit Siang camouflaging his true ambitions”.

“Suddenly I realised that there was not one but two 'one-trick ponies', and both are from Sabah,” he said.

Previously, Lim had claimed that Sabah Umno had produced two “stooges”, in reference to Rahman and Salleh (photo).

Following a reprimand from Salleh, the DAP veteran argued that he used the term “stooges” in relation to the yesteryear comedy trio “The Three Stooges” since Rahman and Salleh were Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's “court jesters”.

In the wake of the two Sabah BN leaders' attacks in the past 24 hours, Lim said he is now having second thoughts.

“But on reflection, I agree that both Salleh and Rahman also qualify for the second meaning of 'stooge' - an unthinking underling who will do anything to please his master,” he added.

The Gelang Patah MP said he was prepared to produce a list where Salleh and Rahman played the two roles of “stooges” if both or any one of the two is prepared to organise and host a public event.

On the same note, Lim claimed that both ministers had only succeeded in convincing Malaysians about their “lack of vision as well as lack of imagination” as well.

“Malaysia can surely do better than having these two 'one trick ponies' in the cabinet in Putrajaya,” he added.

In an interview with Channel News Asia, Rahman claimed that Lim was using Dr Mahathir Mohamad to win the general election.

"Mahathir can forget about the job. Anwar Ibrahim can forget about the job.

“It will be Lim Kit Siang (as prime minister). And therefore to understand Malaysian politics, focus on this guy," Rahman had said.

Meanwhile, Salleh, in his blog, pointed out that DAP had the most number of seats among the parties in Harapan.

“That means he (Kit Siang) gets to decide who becomes the prime minister if Harapan wins GE14 and being the de facto leader of the party with the largest number of seats, the natural choice for prime minister would be Kit Siang himself," he said.