Section 140, The Public Elections Act, 2012

(1) A petition complaining of an undue return or undueelection of a Member of Parliament or a member of a local council, in this Act called an election petition, may within twenty-one days from the date of the publication of the result of the election in the Gazette be presented to a Judge of the High Court by any one or more of the following persons:– (a) a person who voted or had a right to vote at the election to which the petition relates; (b) a person who claims to have had a right to be returned or elected at the election; or (c) a person who alleges himself to have been a candidate at that election. (2) A person presenting an election petition shall forthwith deliver a copy of it to the Electoral Commission.