The Ayilara Descendants Family, Ogbomoso, Oyo State has disowned the Chief Imam of Ogbomosoland, Imam Teliat Olushina, over alleged attacks on the Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Ghandi Afolabi Olaoye.
It would be recalled that the Chief Imam had granted an interview where he attacked the monarch.
The family described the Chief Imam as an impostor, using social media to allegedly blackmail the Soun of Ogbomoso.
Speaking with journalists in Ibadan on behalf of the family, Prince Hassan Ayilara claimed that Olushina has brought disrepute to Imam Ayilara’s  family, prestigious throne of Soun and image of the entire Muslim community in Ogbomosoland.
According to him, there are six recognised Chief Imam families in Ogbomosoland which are Bango, Alawiye, Abogunde, Aduinin, Ile Imam and Ayilara.
He said Ayilara’s family is not in support of threat calls to Soun of Ogbomosoland and the Chiefs by the Chief Personal Assistants to Alfa Teliat Olushina as reported in an online news platform.
He said, “We condemned the attacks and molestation by hoodlums in which various properties were destroyed and many seriously injured.
“Teliat has been sent away from the Imam Ayilara family quarters of Ogbomoso a long time ago since it has been detected that he was an imposter and not the original son of the Ayilara family of Ogbomoso.
“We state that Imam Ayilara family of Ogbomosoland frown at insults on Soun by Alfa Teliat Olushina and against Muslim organisations, individuals, sons and daughters of Ogbomosoland.
“We dissociate ourselves from his effrontery, we can never be part of that as we hold the Soun of Ogbomosoland in high esteem whose dynasty made our forefathers Chief Imam of Ogbomosoland.
“It’s unfair on his part to have sued Soun and the Soun-in-Council to court that they had no power to remove him even though they installed him.”
Effort to reach Olushina for reaction proved abortive as calls went out to his phone not going.
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