KUALA LUMPUR, March 5 -- Perikatan Nasional (PN)chairman Datuk Seri Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar has rebuked Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin for saying the former is not necessarily the coalition's candidate to be prime minister, bluntly declaring the latter is no longer in the running.

Responding to Muhyiddin's recent remarks that the coalition's chairmanship does not guaranteed a PM candidacy, Samsuri took to Facebook to shut down any ambiguity regarding the Pagoh MP's future.

"What is certain is that Muhyiddin is no longer a PM candidate," said Samsuri, who replaced Muhyiddin as PN chairman on February 22.

The retort follows Muhyiddin's claim that Bersatu and PAS had not yet formally discussed the PM candidate for the 16th General Election (GE16)...