President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday pledged to support more women entrepreneurs to become drivers of the nation’s economy.

The president made the pledge at the launch of the second edition of youth enterprise with innovation in Nigeria known as YouWin in Abuja.

The president said women as better managers of funds would help address issues of poverty and unemployment.

He assured that the business competition is only part of the fulfillment of his transformation agenda and promised that the business programme would be free from corruption.

The president promised that more women entrepreneurs would be supported to facilitate growth in the nation’s economy through a transparent process.

A total of 1,200 women would be selected in this next phase of the programme.

President Jonathan also used the opportunity to assure Nigerians of his promise to sanitize the nation’s electoral process.

Identifying the various supporters of the project, the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said that the programme would ensure that the chronic problem of finance in small and medium scale enterprises would take a dip plunge.

Some of the YouWin awardees, who expressed optimism about the success of the second phase, testified of the credibility of the process.