Elected as an independent, he immediately joined the Human Rights Protection Party and was appointed Associate Minister of Health.
[2] At the 2016 election he contested the newly created constituency of Urban West, losing to Faumuina Asi Pauli Wayne Fong.
An election petition bought against Seiuli resulted in both him and Maualaivao being found guilty of bribery and treating and banned from office for 15 years.
[6][7] In September 2020 he lodged a complaint with police against Deputy Ombudsman Maualaivao Pepe Seuli over a heated verbal exchange during a village council meeting.
[8] Police initially refused to investigate,[8] but in October 2021 charged Maualaivao Pepe Seuli with using insulting words.