[1] He was however appointed the Upper East Regional Minister by President Mills in his government in 2009.
[3] Mark Owen Woyongo was the Public Relations Officer for the Upper East Regional Administration from 1978 and 1985.
In 1994, he was appointed the Minister Counselor for Information at the Ghana High Commission in London, United Kingdom.
[4] He survived a fatal accident when returning from the NDC congress held in the Upper East region.
[5] Woyongo won the 2012 parliamentary elections on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).