Previous owner's icloud on secondhand mac pro

never used icloud before. but mavericks apparently wants me to. bought this mac pro secondhand, and I have my own password on it, but I didn't know about their own icloud account already set up on this machine. how do i get rid of their old icloud account. It looks like machine won't let me set up one with the old one already on here. Thanks.

No.
The Apple ID and Password that was Originally used to Activate the iDevice is required.
If you cannot get this information from the seller
Removing a device from a previous owner’s account
You need to return the Device for a refund, as you will not be able to re-activate it.

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