[3] She went into politics in 2007 with the Social Democratic Front (SDF),[4] the then main Cameroonian opposition party and was then elected into the municipal council of Douala I.

[13] Her father, John Solomon Walla, before his death was Director of a consulting firm owned by John Ngu Foncha and Salomon Tandeng Muna, then Inspector General, Director of Shipping in Douala and finally representative of Cameroon at Ministerial Conference of West and Central African States on Maritime Transports in Abidjan.

In 2010, Walla held a press conference to announce her decision to exit the SDF party and run for the 2011 presidential election.

To attract the maximum possible of young people prior to presidential elections, she encouraged registration on the electoral lists in the country.

[23] In March 2019, she aroused controversy and criticism among many Anglophone Cameroonians for remarks that she made during a panel discussion at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.

"[24] Sitting alongside the Institute for African Studies Director, Jennifer Cooke, and R. Maxwell Bone, and a student at the university who had spent time in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon.

The remarks that she made elicited agreement from Jennifer Cooke and R. Maxwell Bone and subsequently went viral on social media.

This led to criticisms of the fellow panelists of being biased and opposed to Anglophone Secession, and accusations that she wanted to become a minister in the current government of Paul Biya.