diff --git a/hack/.staticcheck_failures b/hack/.staticcheck_failures
index 1f119fad763..e0eae6102a8 100644
--- a/hack/.staticcheck_failures
+++ b/hack/.staticcheck_failures
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 cluster/images/etcd/migrate
 pkg/controller/garbagecollector
-pkg/controller/nodeipam
 pkg/controller/podautoscaler
 pkg/controller/replicaset
 pkg/controller/resourcequota
diff --git a/pkg/controller/nodeipam/BUILD b/pkg/controller/nodeipam/BUILD
index 8cfd78f1fbc..adb33a330c8 100644
--- a/pkg/controller/nodeipam/BUILD
+++ b/pkg/controller/nodeipam/BUILD
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ go_library(
     deps = [
         "//pkg/controller/nodeipam/ipam:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/controller/nodeipam/ipam/sync:go_default_library",
-        "//staging/src/k8s.io/api/core/v1:go_default_library",
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/runtime:go_default_library",
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/informers/core/v1:go_default_library",
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes:go_default_library",
diff --git a/pkg/controller/nodeipam/node_ipam_controller.go b/pkg/controller/nodeipam/node_ipam_controller.go
index 72584dc4675..63223924895 100644
--- a/pkg/controller/nodeipam/node_ipam_controller.go
+++ b/pkg/controller/nodeipam/node_ipam_controller.go
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/client-go/tools/cache"
 	"k8s.io/client-go/tools/record"
 
-	v1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
 	coreinformers "k8s.io/client-go/informers/core/v1"
 	clientset "k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes"
 	corelisters "k8s.io/client-go/listers/core/v1"
@@ -65,8 +64,6 @@ type Controller struct {
 	nodeInformerSynced cache.InformerSynced
 
 	cidrAllocator ipam.CIDRAllocator
-
-	forcefullyDeletePod func(*v1.Pod) error
 }
 
 // NewNodeIpamController returns a new node IP Address Management controller to