BOSTON — One of City Hall’s most visible “economic” officials is on the way out.

Segun Idowu, Boston’s Chief of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion, is stepping down at the end of February, according to reporting. Idowu said he’s leaving to spend more time caring for his grandmother.

At City Hall, Idowu has been a highly paid face of the Wu administration’s economic agenda — a history major earning nearly $200,000 a year — in a role that includes overseeing programs that steer millions in taxpayer dollars into grants and initiatives aimed at “underrepresented communities.”

But in Boston politics, exits like this rarely land as a clean, quiet goodbye — especially not when the departing official has already been a headline.

Idowu’s tenure was rocked by a misconduct controversy last year after a former city employee accused him of propositioning her. The allegations detonated into a broader City Hall storm, with weeks of public scrutiny and political fallout. Idowu denied wrongdoing, and an outside investigation later found no evidence that he violated city policies.

Now he’s leaving anyway.

The timing is not subtle. Boston’s downtown economy remains under heavy pressure, commercial property values are a growing worry for the city’s long-term budget math, and the Wu administration has been fighting on multiple fronts over taxes, spending, and the future of the city’s tax base.

City Hall will frame this as personal. Critics will frame it as another top official exiting after a damaging controversy — and another reminder that the administration keeps cycling through turbulence while Boston’s economic problems get harder to spin away.

Either way, the bottom line for taxpayers is simple: the “economic opportunity” chief is stepping down, and Boston’s economy is still sputtering.