KUALA LUMPUR - Results for Umno internal polls on Sunday saw president Zahid Hamidi cementing his grip on the party, with loyalists having swept most of the top posts, including two out of three vice-president posts, supreme council seats and the party’s wings.

Pahang Chief Minister Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail, Higher Education Minister Khaled Nordin, and former second finance minister Johari Ghani officially won the three Umno vice-president’s posts, Umno election committee chairman Shahrir Samad told a news conference.