RHEL openssl conflicts

First let me state I am no linux expert by any stretch, but I am learning. Most experience is on the CentOS and Ubuntu distros, but I am working on a RHEL per the job. I am stuck installing PHP 5.5 (to support wordpress), I think the server was not set up correctly (contractor) and I have ended up with a copy openssl from ius as opposed to the base linux repo.

the error I am dealing with is as follows:

/usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.1e from install of openssl-1.0.1e-30.el6_6.4.x86_64 conflicts with file from package openssl10-libs-1.0.1e-1.ius.el6.x86_64

I tried to remove the ius version, but there are nearly 40 dependencies on it - some of which look important (wget, python, openssh).

What is the best course of action here? Should I rebuild from scratch OR remove the dependencies and reinstall?