diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/libnvidia-container/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/libnvidia-container/default.nix
index c74416ac33ba..d718c61066f2 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/libnvidia-container/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/libnvidia-container/default.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 , libtirpc
 , makeWrapper
 , substituteAll
+, removeReferencesTo
 , go
 }:
 let
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = [ "-I${libtirpc.dev}/include/tirpc" ];
   NIX_LDFLAGS = [ "-L${libtirpc.dev}/lib" "-ltirpc" ];
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config go rpcsvc-proto makeWrapper ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config go rpcsvc-proto makeWrapper removeReferencesTo ];
 
   buildInputs = [ libelf libcap libseccomp libtirpc ];
 
@@ -105,8 +106,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       libraryPath = lib.makeLibraryPath [ "$out" driverLink "${driverLink}-32" ];
     in
     ''
+      remove-references-to -t "${go}" $out/lib/libnvidia-container-go.so.1.9.0
       wrapProgram $out/bin/nvidia-container-cli --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : ${libraryPath}
     '';
+  disallowedReferences = [ go ];
 
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://github.com/NVIDIA/libnvidia-container";