It is silly season. The election period is here and as such people will say stuff that they will regret later.

Hotelier Mohammed Hersi has had to backtrack in his Twitter posts that told former Jicho Pevu presenter to go and campaign in Isiolo and leave Nyali alone.

Hersi tweeted, "My friend you don't belong here. If anything you a the power broker & Isiolo is calling for you where your brethren are more marginalised," adding, "He should stop misleading people his brethren in Isiolo need him more."

A former KTN TV journalist and colleague to Mohammed Ali joined in the fray. Saadiq Shaban angrily told off Hersi.

"You must be called out for who you really are, Hersi. You can no longer hide inside Hotel massage rooms from where you wax patriotic or optimistic. You are a cold blooded tribal monger, an inciter, a bigot, an ethnic chauvinist and spineless apologist of chaos. You have no greater moral rights than anyone else to dictate who should belong to whichever part of this country. Saying Mohammed Ali does Not belong to Nyali, whist you came from Marsabit yourself to seek better fortunes for yourself and your family, smirks of a spineless, self-absorbed pretender of unimaginable proportions. I called you out on Twitter and will call you out again here and wherever else you chose to propagate you unbridled pretense. Your comments to Mohammed Ali, who has achieved more influence across the country that you will ever do, are callous, cowardly and cold-blooded. Shame on you."

Hersi took to social media to defend himself.

He wrote, "My attention has been drawn to selective screen shots from my good friend Mohamed Ali of jicho Pevu. My beef with with him started when I came out to comment on the Eastleigh incident and he referred to me as sycophant. I am a voter in Nyali and the constituency is just not about Nyali. We have many places like that are needy Maweni , Ziwa la Ngombe etc that require serious attention he has never shared his manifesto and plan for Nyali. As a tourism stakeholders I will play my part to ensure we get the right leadership."

He continued, "You can vie for any seat anywhere but the voters are the ones to decide but fact remains that Mohamed has no connection with this constituency let alone Mombasa. We are very careful that we do not end up with a fly-in MP who abandons us once he gets elected .Kenyans can vie for a seat anywhere as long as you have a connection with a place. Junet in Migori has lived there for ages, Dawood in Meru and right here in Nyali our current MP is Hon Awiti Bolo. Hon Awiti has lived and continues to live in Mombasa . He has serious investment in Nyali. He has been involved matters Nyali for more than two decades."

Hersi added, "Whipping  emotions on religious lines will also not get you votes , Twitter or FB followers don't translate to votes. I wish Mohamed my namesake the best of luck as he transitions from Journalism to politics .I am a patriotic Kenyan who repects everyone without a tinge of prejudism and I am not about to change. As always I choose ro remain an optimist."