diff --git a/faust/transport/consumer.py b/faust/transport/consumer.py
index c67244139..9742943c9 100644
--- a/faust/transport/consumer.py
+++ b/faust/transport/consumer.py
@@ -733,13 +733,6 @@ async def getmany(self, timeout: float) -> AsyncIterator[Tuple[TP, Message]]:
                     # convert timestamp to seconds from int milliseconds.
                     yield tp, to_message(tp, record)
 
-    async def _wait_suspend(self):
-        """Wrapper around self.suspend_flow.wait() with no return value.
-
-        This allows for easily
-        """
-        await self.suspend_flow.wait()
-
     async def _wait_next_records(
         self, timeout: float
     ) -> Tuple[Optional[RecordMap], Optional[Set[TP]]]:
@@ -760,18 +753,10 @@ async def _wait_next_records(
             # Fetch records only if active partitions to avoid the risk of
             # fetching all partitions in the beginning when none of the
             # partitions is paused/resumed.
-            _getmany = self._getmany(
+            records = await self._getmany(
                 active_partitions=active_partitions,
                 timeout=timeout,
             )
-            wait_results = await self.wait_first(
-                _getmany,
-                self.suspend_flow.wait(),
-            )
-            for coro, result in zip(wait_results.done, wait_results.results):
-                if coro is _getmany:
-                    records = result
-                    break
         else:
             # We should still release to the event loop
             await self.sleep(1)