By Ikenna Asomba

Lagos—Ahead of Saturday’s presidential election, business moguls under the auspices of Corporate Forum, CF, Monday, endorsed the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan, saying it took the step because the President has fulfilled his 2010 campaign promises anchored on the Transformation Agenda.

Addressing newsmen at the National Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, in Lagos, Chairman of the Forum, Otunba Funsho Lawal, as well its Directors, Amb. Greg Mbadiwe and Francis Kudayo, said the group whose membership spans across sectors such as the oil and gas, manufacturing, telecommunication, banking and IT, said Jonathan’s reforms has made Nigeria the number one economy in Africa; one of the fastest growing economies in the world and the number one destination for Foreign Direct Investment in Africa.

Pointing however, that Jonathan deserves a second term for these giant strides, Lawal said: “The reasons the Corporate Forum is endorsing President Goodluck Jonathan for a second term in office is because we have discovered that the President has fulfilled his 2010 campaign promises anchored on the Transformation Agenda to bring a breath of fresh air to all sectors of the economy and the polity.”

“President Jonathan’s score card of transformation cuts across sectors such as fiscal management reforms, financial sector reforms, pension reforms, local content reforms, job creation reforms, manufacturing reforms, agricultural reforms and others.