Having married a Solomon Islander and established her home in the Solomons, she became a naturalised citizen of that country. Her husband is Jimmy "Rasta" Lusibaea, who was a warlord, one of the leaders of the Malaita Eagle Force, during severe ethnic conflicts in the Solomons in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. After serving time in prison, he went into politics, and was elected to the National Parliament as independent Member of Parliament for the North Malaita constituency in the 2010 general election, then immediately appointed as Minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources in Prime Minister Danny Philip"s government.
In October 2011, he lost his seat in Parliament and his position in the Cabinet upon being convicted for grievous bodily harm and assaulting a police officer, for events dating back to the interethnic violence a decade earlier.
His expulsion from Parliament led to a by-election for his seat, held on 1 August 2012. At that stage, there had only ever been one woman elected to Parliament in the country"s entire history since its independence from the United Kingdom in 1978: Hilda Kari had been an Member of Parliament from 1989 to 2001.
The couple obtained the support of "the chiefs, church leaders and community leaders" before the election. Vika Lusibaea campaigned on a promise to continue her husband"s work.
There was some slight controversy over her victory, critics drawing attention to the fact she was a Fiji-born naturalized citizen, and to her "limited literacy skills".
Her husband swiftly announced that he would not allow her to be interviewed by foreign media, informing the media simply that she would apply the same policies as his own. She herself later explained: "I only came in so he could continue all the work being done. I am just there so we have someone sitting in the chair in order for us to have access to the funding and the projects.
Everything else is the same".
Lusibaea took her seat as a backbencher in Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo"s National Coalition for Rural Advancement government. In June 2013, she spoke in a conference panel on the state of democracy in the Pacific, at the Australian National University.
(Among the speakers was only one other Member of Parliament from a Pacific Island country: Vanuatuan anthropologist and government minister Ralph Regenvanu).