IPhone keeps asking for an Apple ID that's years old

Hopefully someone can help. I've been using my Apple ID for two plus years and I just got the 5s. I did an iCloud backup with my old iphone 4 which used my normal Apple ID. On the new phone after I set it up from the cloud backup and it shows my normal Apple ID everywhere on the phone, it keeps asking me to sign into an old Apple ID I used years ago. How do I get rid of that?

Do you have content (iTunes music, videos or apps) on the phone that were purchased or downloaded with the old Apple ID? All iTunes content is associated with the Apple ID it was purchased with. So updating or reinstalling that content requires the password for the original Apple ID.

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