IPhone 4 won't let me set up an iCloud account

My neice got a iPhone 4 handed down to her after my sister and younger sister had it and after I had set up an iCloud account on it now we can't set up an iCloud id on it when we try to it says that this device already has to many iCloud accounts on it how do we get it to set up her iCloud on her phone?
The phone isn't even a year old maybe 7 months

I found this work around for forcing the set up of a pop mail account on iphone 4.
Hope this helps. It worked for me...
Forcing creation of a POP or IMAP email account

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