But after considerable behind-the-scenes jockeying over his proposal in advance of a two-day summit meeting that opened here on Monday , Africa 's leaders opted instead to set up a committee that will recommend who should replace President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria as the African Union 's chairman .
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