An Anticlimactic Ending
After Arnail surrendered his claim to the governorship, Georgia was still left with two governors, each of whom had appointed government officials. The result was two months of chaos.
In March 1947 the George Supreme ruled that Melvin Thompson was the rightful governor because he was lieutenant governor-elect when Eugene Talmadge died. In a five-to-two decision the justices ruled that Thompson would be the acting governor until a special election could be held to decide the remainder of the original term, which would have run from 1947 to 1951.
The purported substitution of Prince Abubakar Audu with Yahaya Bello and the purported conduct of the so called supplementary election by INEC on December 5, 2015 together with the purported declaration and return of Yahaya Bello as the elected governor of Kogi State are all exercises in legal futility. They are legal non-events. They will not stand. They are void abibitio. You do not put something on nothing and expect it to stand. It will surely fall. INEC and Yahaha Bello and some of his APC collaborators will fall. James Faleke and the Constitution will stand. The Election Tribunal and the Courts shall rise up, like the Georgian Supreme Court, to their judicial and constitutional responsibilities to ensure that justice according to the Constitution prevails.

PURPORTED ELECTION OF YAHAYA BELLO AS GOVERNOR OF KOGI STATE
The purported election of Yahaya Bello as governor of Kogi State in the supplementary election of December 5, 2015 on the platform of the APC as substitute for deceased Prince Abubakar Audu is a mockery of constitutional democracy. The purported election is void, invalid and unconstitutional. The purported substitution with Yahaya Bello having been based on section 33 of the Electoral Act which we contend is inapplicable to this case necessarily throws up the mandatory requirement of section 187 of the Constitution on Yahaya Bello which must be met before the date of election. But election had been held and concluded on November 21, 2015. Yahaya Bello was “nominated” by change or substitution on December 2, 2015. APC said James Faleke was his running mate, but James Faleke rightly rejected the offer. James Faleke had long emerged as running mate to Prince Abubakar Audu before the election of November 21, 2015. A governorship candidate emerges first before a deputy governorship candidate is nominated by the successfully nominated governorship candidate. A deputy governorship candidate does not emerge before a governorship candidate. It is the other way round. James Faleke had long emerged as deputy governorship candidate before Yahaya Bello appeared as governorship candidate. Hence we insist section 33 of the Electoral Act is inapplicable to Prince Audu’s death.
As at December 5,2015 when Yahaya Bello was purportedly elected as the governor of Kogi State in the supplementary election on the platform of APC, Yahaya Bello had no running mate as contemplated, envisaged and provided for under section 187(1) of the Constitution, James Faleke having rejected that position with Yahaya Bello. Therefore, the purported nomination of Yahaya Bello by APC as its governorship candidate for Kogi State for the December 5, 2015 supplementary election was invalid. Yahaya Bello having not nominated a running mate as at the date of the supplementary election on December 5, 2015 was therefore not validly nominated as required by section 187(1) of the Constitution. Up till now, even after the election, Yahaya Bello still has not got any running mate with James Faleke continuously rejecting that position with Yahaya Bello.
We submit that by section 187(1) of the Constitution, a governorship candidate must have a running mate to run jointly and simultaneously with him at the date of the governorship election, not after the election. The section contemplates that a governorship candidate and his deputy governorship candidate will run jointly and simultaneously in the governorship election. This is also the position under the Constitution of the State of Alaska of the United States of America. Article III, Section 8 of the Alaska Constitution provides that:
The lieutenant governor shall be nominated in the manner provided by law for nominating candidates for other elective offices. In the general election the votes cast for a candidate for governor shall be considered as cast also for the candidate for lieutenant governor running jointly with that of the successful candidate for governor shall be elected lieutenant governor.
The Alaska Constitutional Convention explained that the intent of the above section was to assure a strong executive. According to the Convention:
In order to enforce and bulwark the strong executive, it was felt that we should provide some means by which he would come from the same political party which the governor came from, so, in the manner in which the President and Vice President are elected, we selected the joint ballot type of thing. They run jointly on the ballot and are elected jointly as is done for the President and Vice President of the United States.

Section 187(1) of the Constitution provides:
In any election to which the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Chapter relate, candidate for the office of Governor of a State shall not be deemed to have been validly nominated for such office unless he nominates another candidate as his associate for his running for the office of Governor, who is to occupy the office of Deputy Governor, and that candidate shall be deemed to have been duly elected to the office of Deputy Governor if the candidate who nominated him is duly elected as Governor in accordance with the said provisions.
The purported nomination and election of Yahaya Bello is liable to nullification for breach of section 187(1) of the Constitution on the ground of invalid nomination for failure to meet the constitutional running mate requirement. We submit that strict compliance with mandatory legal electoral provisions in election statutes including constitutional provisions on electoral matters is essential to avoid confusion and chaos in the administration of elections: see Falke v. State, 717 P.2d 369, 375 (Alaska 1986); Silides v. Thomas, 559 P.2d 80, 87 (Alaska 1977). We submit that the failure to nominate and have a consenting running mate at the date of the supplementary election is an act of non-compliance with constitutional electoral provisions: see section 138(1)(b) of the Electoral Act. This is one other reason we insist section 33 of the Electoral Act cannot and does not apply to Prince Abubakar Audu’s death.

CONCLUSION
Without any doubt or fear of contradiction, we make bold to say that Mr. James Faleke is now the winner of the Kogi governorship election and the rightful candidate to be sworn in as Governor of Kogi State. Any other person than Mr.’ James Faleke who might be sworn in as Governor of Kogi State now would be occupying Kogi Government House temporarily illegally as a squatter and must surely vacant same when Mr. James Faleke returns from the Supreme Court to occupy his rightful office. This is the only correct position of the law and no other.