diff --git a/src/plugins/select/bluegene/bl_bgq/bridge_status.cc b/src/plugins/select/bluegene/bl_bgq/bridge_status.cc
index e5722020d87e82093bf81ab27abda5b468a22a41..756eee3cc0dc529e5bdc300ada3b42bb09272ae3 100644
--- a/src/plugins/select/bluegene/bl_bgq/bridge_status.cc
+++ b/src/plugins/select/bluegene/bl_bgq/bridge_status.cc
@@ -970,7 +970,6 @@ static void _do_hardware_poll(int level, uint16_t *coords,
 
 static void *_poll(void *no_data)
 {
-	event_handler_t event_hand;
 	static time_t last_ran = 0;
 	time_t curr_time;