[4][9] Kingibe's political career began in 1990 with her appointment as Adviser to the National Chairman of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP).

[4][11][12] Before the elections, she pledged her basic salary (if she should win) to a special fund to tackle infrastructural deficits in the rural communities within the nation's capital.

[1] Kingibe held a press conference arguing that INEC had no basis for canceling an election she won and defeated the three-term Senator Philip Aduda.

At the press conference, she claimed that opposition parties bribed electoral officers during the presidential and National assembly elections.

[15] She also claimed that there was an alleged move to rig her out of the election and that the Gwarinpa collation Centre was attacked by thugs who destroyed the result sheets.