Segun Idowu, a top Wu cabinet official accused of sexual misconduct by a former city employee, is resigning from his post as Boston’s chief of economic opportunity and inclusion next month, Mayor Michelle Wu’s office confirmed.

Idowu’s resignation is effective Feb. 27. He is the latest high-ranking official to leave the Wu administration after the mayor’s reelection to a second term.

“Under Chief Idowu’s leadership, Boston’s neighborhoods have become more vibrant, inclusive, and connected,” Wu said Monday in a statement. “Over the last four years, his efforts helped transform systems and make opportunities accessible to all, from filling vacant storefronts through innovative programs to support local businesses, to boosting supplier diversity in city contracting and bolstering wealth building and entrepreneurship throughout Boston’s neighborhoods and downtown.

“His work has helped Boston rebound from the pandemic as a thriving city where companies and their employees want to work and live. I’m thankful for his service to the city of Boston and dedication to our community,” the mayor added.

Idowu’s departure comes after months of scrutiny over his alleged involvement in a City Hall love triangle that left two city employees fired after a domestic dispute last May.

Marwa Khudaynazar, the city’s ex-chief of staff for the Office of Police Accountability and Transparency, filed a lawsuit against City Hall last September that claims the city “destroyed” her life by unfairly firing her to protect Idowu, a top Wu administration official she had accused of sexual misconduct, and spare the mayor of a scandal during an election year.

Khudaynazar claims that Idowu, the city’s chief of economic opportunity and inclusion and the boss of her then-boyfriend Chulan Huang, propositioned her, which sparked the alleged domestic dispute between her and Huang that led to both of their arrests and dismissals days later by the city.

Idowu has denied any wrongdoing through his attorney Jeffrey Robbins, while pointing to a city-commissioned investigation that found he did not violate any city workforce policies.

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Wu has stated Khudaynazar and Huang, the ex-neighborhood business manager for the city’s Office of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion, were fired for their “invoking of official status” as city employees to try to avoid being arrested during a police response.

The mayor’s office would not make Idowu available for comment Monday night, nor disclose the reason for his resignation.

Idowu told the Boston Globe, which first reported his departure, that he was resigning to “spend as much time as I can with my grandmother, who I’ve been helping to take care of over the last several years.”

His resignation follows the recent departure of two other high-ranking Wu officials.

Ex-Boston Chief of Streets Jascha Franklin-Hodge, who oversaw the city’s contentious bus and bike lane expansion, left the Wu administration at the end of last year. Tiffany Chu departed her role as Wu’s chief of staff last November, following the mayor’s reelection to a second term.