Ninety-nine percent of the opposition's allegations about the prime minister's wife Rosmah Mansor are untrue, said the prime minister's special officer Rizal Mansor.

Among these, he said, are the allegations that Rosmah has control over his husband Najib Abdul Razak and his administration, and even has an office in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).

However, he said, the truth is that the office had existed during the tenure of Najib's predecessors Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, and was scrapped during Najib's tenure.

"Yes, the Office of the Prime Minister's Wife existed in the PMO during the tenures of the fourth and fifth prime ministers, but during Najib's era, the office is no longer there and Rosmah had never stepped into it.

"They reversed the fact. Why? Because Rosmah said she does not need the office because she doesn't want to go to the office. She didn't like to go to the office," Rizal said while launching the Kelana Jaya Umno Youth divisional meeting today.

He said the office is located next to the prime minister's own office and is a place for spouses of foreign dignitaries to go when the prime minister receives official visits.

However, Rosmah preferred to receive the guests at the couple’s official residence at Seri Perdana instead.

He added that contrary to the allegations against her, Rosmah only goes to the PMO twice a year: when PMO staff throws a birthday party for Najib, and when the PMO hosts an open house.

The presence of a “Flom Division” in the PMO had caused much debate and speculation until it was quietly removed from the PMO’s directory sometime around January 2011.

It was speculated but never confirmed nor denied that Flom is an acronym for “First Lady of Malaysia”.

Meanwhile in his speech, Rizal rued the various ways the opposition and its supporters twisted various facts about Rosmah.

Among them was when Najib and Rosmah made an official visit to Singapore last year in conjunction with the island nation’s National Day celebrations.

However, a photo from the event emerged showing Rosmah walking ahead of Najib, prompting questions on social media asking, “Who is the real prime minister?”

“The opposition is clever. We don’t have such expertise. They have some great skill in this. Just put a picture, and they can think of strange things. We don’t know how to do that. We are not born that way,” he lamented.

In reality, he said, the photo was a result of protocols imposed by the Singapore hosts on the guests present, including Najib and Rosmah.

He said at the time, Najib was sitting outside the venue with other world leaders, while Rosmah was seated inside together with their spouses.

It is common sense that those who would be seated inside the venue would be walking ahead of those sitting outside, he said.

Rizal reminded the Kelana Jaya Umno Youth that it has less than a year to address questions like these in peoples’ minds before a general election is called, so there is no time to waste.

However, he pointed out that even prominent opposition leaders such as Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli become fearful when confronted.

During the Kuala Kangsar by-election last year, he said he grew tired of answering Rafizi’s allegations regarding Rosmah’s use of a government-hired jet, so he went to attend Rafizi’s next press conference on the matter.

He said he wanted to be there to answer Rafizi's allegations on-the-spot, but Rafizi refused to allow him to attend.

"He did not dare to face me. I'm not saying I'm bold or I'm great, but what I'm saying that if we dare to confront them, they are afraid too. They'd panic," he said

At the time, Rafizi had claimed that he was not afraid to face Rizal, but said he should be debating with Najib or Rosmah instead.