services \"simplenifi-headless\" is forbidden: cannot set blockOwnerDeletion if an ownerReference refers to a resource you can't set finalizers on: , <nil>"

[nnachefski]

Attempting to deploy simplenificluster.yaml on Openshift 4.8 and am hitting this error in the operator pod:

{"reconciler group": "nifi.orange.com", "reconciler kind": "NifiCluster", "name": "simplenifi", "namespace": "nifi", "error": "failed to reconcile resource: creating resource failed: services \"simplenifi-headless\" is forbidden: cannot set blockOwnerDeletion if an ownerReference refers to a resource you can't set finalizers on: , <nil>"

 # kubectl get role
NAME      CREATED AT
nifikop   2022-02-10T09:59:01Z

# kubectl get rolebindings
NAME                        ROLE                                    AGE
nifikop                     Role/nifikop                            30m

# kubectl get sa nifikop
NAME      SECRETS   AGE
nifikop   2         30m

# kubectl get deploy nifikop -o 'jsonpath={.spec.template.spec.serviceAccountName}'
nifikop

Any ideas on why this might be happening on Openshift kube?