Vika Lusibaea

Vika Koto Lusibaea (born 28 June 1964)

With no more than a primary school education, she ultimately went into business, attaining a managerial position in a private company.

Jimmy Lusibaea asked his reluctant wife to stand in the by-election, essentially to represent him in Parliament in his place. 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 MP from 1989 to 2001. 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".

For the 2014 general election, she relinquished the North Malaita seat back to her husband, and stood unsuccessfully in the Central Honiara constituency.