A United States-based policy advisory and lobbying firm, Von Batten-Montague-York, says the U.S. anti-terror partnership with Nigeria is not open-ended. In a post on its verified X account on Tuesday, the firm welcomes what it describes as the Trump administration’s approval of weapons sales to Nigeria intended to help the country fight terrorism.

The firm says U.S. and Nigerian interests overlap in countering terrorism, but that cooperation is conditional and does not amount to “blanket support” for Nigeria’s leadership. It reiterates a position that the U.S. would “not now, not ever” condone alleged past involvement by President Bola Tinubu in heroin trafficking in the 1980s and 1990s, as characterized by the firm. It also argues that aligned interests can change if broader values diverge, citing Venezuela as an example.

Both sources present the same core claim: the U.S. partnership is portrayed as limited to shared counter-terror goals and subject to political and legal boundaries rather than sustained, unconditional backing.