diff --git a/convert.py b/convert.py
index b0dd6628a..5abd77f05 100755
--- a/convert.py
+++ b/convert.py
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ class LlamaHfVocab(Vocab):
     tokenizer_model = "llama"
     name = "hfft"
 
-    def __init__(self, base_path: Path, ignore_nonllama: bool = False):
+    def __init__(self, base_path: Path):
         fname_tokenizer = base_path / FAST_TOKENIZER_FILE
         # if this fails, FileNotFoundError propagates to caller
         with open(fname_tokenizer, encoding='utf-8') as f:
@@ -524,9 +524,7 @@ class LlamaHfVocab(Vocab):
 
         # pre-check so we know if we need transformers
         tokenizer_model: dict[str, Any] = tokenizer_json['model']
-        if ignore_nonllama:
-            pass  # workaround incorrect use of this class for WordPiece
-        elif (
+        if (
             tokenizer_model['type'] != 'BPE' or not tokenizer_model.get('byte_fallback', False)
             or tokenizer_json['decoder']['type'] != 'Sequence'
         ):