diff --git a/substrate/client/cli/src/runner.rs b/substrate/client/cli/src/runner.rs
index 807a5620ec..05445c9d85 100644
--- a/substrate/client/cli/src/runner.rs
+++ b/substrate/client/cli/src/runner.rs
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ impl<C: SubstrateCli> Runner<C> {
 		self.tokio_runtime.block_on(main(task_manager.future().fuse()))
 			.map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
 		task_manager.terminate();
-		drop(task_manager);
+		drop(self.tokio_runtime);
 		Ok(())
 	}