EYG - the new Governor does not have to be in or near the province to award that unit the title. Also, there is no reason why you necessarily have to give a title to a General, a Peasant unit will do just fine and about 1 in 5 Peasant units are created with Acumen +4. A Peasant unit is also likely to remain in the Province so can acquire the Builder V&V for additional income and happiness increments.
Now if you had a Peasant Governor of Acu +2 or +3 as a "temporary Governor" - better than no Governor at all - and you produced a new Peasant (or any other) unit of Acu +4, you would disband the "old" Peasant unit - since it only cost you 50 florins to produce - and immediately award the Governor-ship to the new unit without losing that turn where the Province has no Governor.
I asked this whole question about Governors and Acumen in a recent Entrance Hall thread and there was a lot of good discussion on the topic and the various techniques and units people use as Governors:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=36057
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